Mark 7:21

New International Version

For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder,

Cross References

Genesis 6:5

The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.

Genesis 8:21

The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.

Job 14:4

Who can bring what is pure from the impure? No one!

Job 25:4

How then can a mortal be righteous before God? How can one born of woman be pure?

Psalm 119:36

Turn my heart toward your statutes and not toward selfish gain.

Psalm 14:1

The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good.

Psalm 14:3

All have turned away, all have become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.

Psalm 53:1

The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and their ways are vile; there is no one who does good.

Psalm 53:3

Everyone has turned away, all have become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.

Proverbs 15:25

The Lord tears down the house of the proud, but he sets the widow’s boundary stones in place.

Proverbs 4:23

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

Isaiah 59:13

rebellion and treachery against the Lord, turning our backs on our God, inciting revolt and oppression, uttering lies our hearts have conceived.

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet rush into sin; they are swift to shed innocent blood. They pursue evil schemes; acts of violence mark their ways.

Jeremiah 16:12

But you have behaved more wickedly than your ancestors. See how all of you are following the stubbornness of your evil hearts instead of obeying me.

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

Jeremiah 4:14

Jerusalem, wash the evil from your heart and be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts?

Ezekiel 38:10

“ ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: On that day thoughts will come into your mind and you will devise an evil scheme.

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.

Matthew 9:4

Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said, “Why do you entertain evil thoughts in your hearts?

Mark 7:20

He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them.

Mark 7:22

adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly.

Luke 16:15

He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of others, but God knows your hearts. What people value highly is detestable in God’s sight.

Acts 5:4

Didn’t it belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, wasn’t the money at your disposal? What made you think of doing such a thing? You have not lied just to human beings but to God.”

Acts 8:22

Repent of this wickedness and pray to the Lord in the hope that he may forgive you for having such a thought in your heart.

Romans 7:5

For when we were in the realm of the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death.

Romans 7:8

But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead.

Colossians 3:5

Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.

Titus 3:3

At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.

James 2:4

have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?