Matthew 15:19

God's Word

Evil thoughts, murder, adultery, ⌞other⌟ sexual sins, stealing, lying, and cursing come from within.

Cross References

Jeremiah 17:9

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

Proverbs 4:23

Guard your heart more than anything else, because the source of your life flows from it.

Genesis 6:5

The Lord saw how evil humans had become on the earth. All day long their deepest thoughts were nothing but evil.

Jeremiah 4:14

Jerusalem, wash the evil from your heart so that you may be rescued. Don’t continue making evil plans.

Acts 8:22

So change your wicked thoughts, and ask the Lord if he will forgive you for thinking like this.

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.

Isaiah 55:7

Let wicked people abandon their ways. Let evil people abandon their thoughts. Let them return to the Lord, and he will show compassion to them. Let them return to our God, because he will freely forgive them.

Proverbs 6:14

He devises evil all the time with a twisted mind. He spreads conflict.

Psalm 119:113

I hate two-faced people, but I love your teachings.

Romans 7:18

I know that nothing good lives in me; that is, nothing good lives in my corrupt nature. Although I have the desire to do what is right, I don’t do it.

Matthew 9:4

Jesus knew what they were thinking. He asked them, “Why are you thinking evil things?

Genesis 8:21

The Lord smelled the soothing aroma. He said to himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of humans, even though from birth their hearts are set on nothing but evil. I will never again kill every living creature as I have just done.

Proverbs 24:9

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

Proverbs 22:15

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

Numbers 22:29

Balaam answered, “You’ve made a fool of me! If I had a sword in my hand, I’d kill you right now.”

Matthew 5:28

But I can guarantee that whoever looks with lust at a woman has already committed adultery in his heart.

Matthew 15:20

These are the things that make a person unclean. But eating without washing one’s hands doesn’t make a person unclean.”