Mark 7:22

God's Word

adultery, greed, wickedness, cheating, shameless lust, envy, cursing, arrogance, and foolishness come from within a person.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 32:31

When the leaders of Babylon sent ambassadors to ask him about the miraculous sign that had happened in the land, God left him. God did this to test him, to find out everything that was in Hezekiah’s heart.

Psalm 10:4

He turns up his nose ⌞and says⌟, “God doesn’t care.” His every thought ⌞concludes⌟, “There is no God.”

Psalm 119:36

Direct my heart toward your written instructions rather than getting rich in underhanded ways.

Proverbs 12:23

A sensible person ⌞discreetly⌟ hides knowledge, but foolish minds preach stupidity.

Proverbs 22:15

Foolishness is firmly attached to a child’s heart. Spanking will remove it far from him.

Proverbs 23:6

Do not eat the food of one who is stingy, and do not crave his delicacies.

Proverbs 24:9

Foolish scheming is sinful, and a mocker is disgusting to everyone.

Proverbs 27:22

If you crush a stubborn fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, ⌞even then⌟ his stupidity will not leave him.

Proverbs 28:22

A stingy person is in a hurry to get rich, not realizing that poverty is about to overtake him.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

I turned my attention to study, to explore, and to seek out wisdom and the reason for things. I learned that wickedness is stupid and foolishness is madness.

Isaiah 59:13

We have rebelled and denied the Lord. We have turned away from our God. We have spoken about oppression and revolt. We have conceived and uttered lies in our hearts.

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet run to do evil. They hurry to shed innocent blood. Their plans are evil. Ruin and destruction are on their highways.

Jeremiah 17:9

“The human mind is the most deceitful of all things. It is incurable. No one can understand how deceitful it is.

Matthew 20:15

Can’t I do what I want with my own money? Or do you resent my generosity towards others?’

Matthew 6:23

But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If the light in you is darkness, how dark it will be!

Mark 7:21

Evil thoughts, sexual sins, stealing, murder,

Mark 7:23

All these evils come from within and make a person unclean.”

2 Corinthians 10:5

and all their intellectual arrogance that oppose the knowledge of God. We take every thought captive so that it is obedient to Christ.

Deuteronomy 15:9

When the seventh year—the year when payments on debts are canceled—is near, you might be stingy toward poor Israelites and give them nothing. Be careful not to think these worthless thoughts. The poor will complain to the Lord about you, and you will be condemned for your sin.

Deuteronomy 28:54

Even the most tender and sensitive man among you will become stingy toward his brother, the wife he loves, and the children he still has left.

Deuteronomy 28:56

The most tender and sensitive woman among you—so sensitive and tender that she wouldn’t even step on an ant—will become stingy toward the husband she loves or toward her own son or daughter.

1 Peter 2:15

God wants you to silence the ignorance of foolish people by doing what is right.

1 Peter 5:5

Young people, in a similar way, place yourselves under the authority of spiritual leaders. Furthermore, all of you must serve each other with humility, because God opposes the arrogant but favors the humble.