Mark 7:15

New English Translation

There is nothing outside of a person that can defile him by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles him.”

Cross References

Proverbs 4:23

Guard your heart with all vigilance, for from it are the sources of life.

Matthew 12:34

Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say anything good, since you are evil? For the mouth speaks from what fills the heart.

Matthew 15:16

Jesus said, “Even after all this, are you still so foolish?

Mark 7:14

Then he called the crowd again and said to them, “Listen to me, everyone, and understand.

Acts 10:28

He said to them, “You know that it is unlawful for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile, yet God has shown me that I should call no person defiled or ritually unclean.

Romans 14:17

For the kingdom of God does not consist of food and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 10:25

Eat anything that is sold in the marketplace without questions of conscience,

Titus 1:15

All is pure to those who are pure. But to those who are corrupt and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their minds and consciences are corrupted.

Hebrews 13:9

Do not be carried away by all sorts of strange teachings. For it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not ritual meals, which have never benefited those who participated in them.

Hebrews 9:10

They served only for matters of food and drink and various washings; they are external regulations imposed until the new order came.