Mark 7:21

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

All these bad things begin inside a person, in the mind: bad thoughts, sexual sins, stealing, murder,

Cross References

Jeremiah 17:9

“Nothing can hide its evil as well as the human mind. It can be very sick, and no one really understands it.

Matthew 15:19

All these bad things begin in the mind: evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual sins, stealing, lying, and insulting people.

Acts 8:22

Change your heart! Turn away from these evil thoughts and pray to the Lord. Maybe he will forgive you.

Ezekiel 38:10

This is what the Lord GOD says: “At that time an idea will come into your mind. You will begin to make an evil plan.

Matthew 9:4

Jesus knew what they were thinking. So he said, “Why are you thinking such evil thoughts?

Jeremiah 4:14

People of Jerusalem, wash the evil from your hearts. Make your hearts pure so that you can be saved. Don’t continue making evil plans.

James 2:4

Doesn’t this show that you think some people are more important than others? You set yourselves up as judges—judges who make bad decisions.

Proverbs 4:23

Above all, be careful what you think because your thoughts control your life.

Luke 16:15

Jesus said to them, “You make yourselves look good in front of people. But God knows what is really in your hearts. What people think is important is worth nothing to God.

Isaiah 59:7

Your feet run toward evil. You are always ready to kill innocent people. You think of nothing but evil. Everywhere you go you cause trouble and ruin.

Psalm 53:3

But everyone has turned away from him. Everyone has become evil. No one does anything good. No, not one person!

Psalm 14:3

But everyone has gone the wrong way. Everyone has turned bad. No one does anything good. No, not one person!

Romans 7:8

And sin found a way to use that command and make me want all kinds of things that weren’t mine. So sin came to me because of the command. But without the law, sin has no power.

Acts 5:4

Before you sold the field, it belonged to you, right? And even after you sold it, you could have used the money any way you wanted. How could you even think of doing such a thing? You lied to God, not to us!”

Proverbs 15:25

The Lord destroys a proud man’s house but protects a widow’s property.

Psalm 14:1

Only fools think there is no God. People like that are evil and do terrible things. They never do what is right.

Job 25:4

How can anyone claim to be right before God? No human being can really be pure.

Job 14:4

“No one can make something clean from something so dirty.

Genesis 8:21

The Lord smelled these sacrifices, and it pleased him. The Lord said to himself, “I will never again curse the earth as a way to punish people. People are evil from the time they are young, but I will never again destroy every living thing on the earth as I did this time.

Genesis 6:5

The Lord saw that the people on the earth were very evil. He saw that they thought only about evil things all the time.

Romans 7:5

In the past we were ruled by our sinful selves. The law made us want to do sinful things. And those sinful desires controlled our bodies, so that what we did only brought us spiritual death.

Psalm 53:1

Only fools think there is no God. People like that are evil and do terrible things. They never do what is right.

Titus 3:3

In the past we were foolish too. We did not obey, we were wrong, and we were slaves to the many things our bodies wanted and enjoyed. We lived doing evil and being jealous. People hated us and we hated each other.

Psalm 119:36

Give me the desire to follow your rules, not the desire to get rich.

Isaiah 59:13

We rebelled against the Lord and lied to him. We turned away from our God and left him. We planned to hurt others and to rebel against God. From hearts filled with lies, we talked about it and made our plans.

Jeremiah 16:12

But you people have sinned more than your ancestors. You are very stubborn, and you are doing only what you want to do. You are not obeying me. Because you do only what you want to do,

Mark 7:20

And Jesus said, “The things that make people wrong are the things that come from the inside.

Mark 7:22

adultery, greed, doing bad things to people, lying, doing things that are morally wrong, jealousy, insulting people, proud talking, and foolish living.

Colossians 3:5

So put everything evil out of your life: sexual sin, doing anything immoral, letting sinful thoughts control you, and wanting things that are wrong. And don’t keep wanting more and more for yourself, which is the same as worshiping a false god.