Mark 7:15

New International Version

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

Cross References

Proverbs 4:23

Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.

Matthew 12:34

You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

Matthew 15:16

“Are you still so dull?” Jesus asked them.

Mark 7:14

Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen to me, everyone, and understand this.

Acts 10:28

He said to them: “You are well aware that it is against our law for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile. But God has shown me that I should not call anyone impure or unclean.

Romans 14:17

For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit,

1 Corinthians 10:25

Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience,

Titus 1:15

To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure. In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted.

Hebrews 13:9

Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings. It is good for our hearts to be strengthened by grace, not by eating ceremonial foods, which is of no benefit to those who do so.

Hebrews 9:10

They are only a matter of food and drink and various ceremonial washings—external regulations applying until the time of the new order.