Mark 7:23

James Moffatt - New Testament

all these evils issue from within and they defile a man."

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nothing outside a man can defile him by entering him; it is what comes from him that defiles him.

For the pure all things are pure, but nothing is pure for the polluted and unbelieving; their very mind and conscience are polluted.

God will destroy anyone who would destroy God's temple, for God's temple is sacred — and that is what you are.

Despite it all, these visionaries pollute their flesh, scorn the Powers celestial, and scoff at the angelic Glories.

He said to them, "So you do not understand, either? Do you not see how nothing outside a man can defile him by entering him?

"No," he said, "it is what comes from a man, that is what defiles him.

adultery, lust, malice, deceit, sensuality, envying, slander, arrogance, recklessness,

Leaving there, he went away to the territory of Tyre and Sidon. He went into a house and wished no one to know of it, but he could not escape notice;