Matthew 15:19

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

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

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.

Proverbs 4:23

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

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.

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.

Acts 8:22

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

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.

Isaiah 55:7

Evil people should stop living evil lives. They should stop thinking bad thoughts. They should come to the Lord again, and he will comfort them. They should come to our God because he will freely forgive them.

Proverbs 6:14

They are always planning to do something bad.

Psalm 119:113

Lord, I hate those who are not completely loyal to you, but I love your teachings.

Romans 7:18

Yes, I know that nothing good lives in me—I mean nothing good lives in the part of me that is not spiritual. I want to do what is good, but I don’t do it.

Matthew 9:4

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

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.

Proverbs 24:9

Such foolish plans are wrong, and people have no respect for someone who laughs at what is right.

Proverbs 22:15

Children do foolish things, but if you punish them, they will learn not to do them.

Numbers 22:29

Balaam answered the donkey, “You have made me look foolish. If I had a sword in my hand, I would kill you right now!”

Matthew 5:28

But I tell you that if a man looks at a woman and wants to sin sexually with her, he has already committed that sin with her in his mind.

Matthew 15:20

These are the things that make people wrong. Eating without washing their hands will never make people unacceptable to God.”