The most important thing is for you to be careful in the things you think. Your thoughts control your life.
Mark 7:15 - Easy To Read Version There is nothing a person puts into his body that makes him wrong. {\cf2\super [86]} A person is made wrong by the things that come from him.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 there is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition There is not [even] one thing outside a man which by going into him can pollute and defile him; but the things which come out of a man are what defile him and make him unhallowed and unclean. American Standard Version (1901) there is nothing from without the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man. Common English Bible Nothing outside of a person can enter and contaminate a person in God’s sight; rather, the things that come out of a person contaminate the person.” Catholic Public Domain Version There is nothing from outside a man which, by entering into him, is able to defile him. But the things which procede from a man, these are what pollute a man. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version There is nothing from without a man that entering into him, can defile him. But the things which come from a man, those are they that defile a man. |
The most important thing is for you to be careful in the things you think. Your thoughts control your life.
You snakes! You are evil people! How can you say anything good? The mouth speaks the things that are in the heart.
Jesus called the people to him again. He said, “Every person should listen to me and understand what I am saying.
Peter said to the people, “You people understand that it is against our Jewish law for a Jew to associate with or visit any person who is not a Jew. But God has shown me that I should not call any person ‘unholy’ or ‘not clean.’
In the kingdom of God, eating and drinking are not important. In the kingdom of God, the important things are these: living right with God, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. {\cf2\super [143]}
Eat any meat that is sold in the meat market. Don’t ask questions \{about the meat\} to see if it is something you think is wrong to eat.
To people that are pure, all things are pure. But to people who are full of sin and don’t believe, nothing is pure. Really, those people’s thinking has become evil and their knowledge of what is right has been ruined.
Don’t let all kinds of strange teachings lead you into the wrong way. Your hearts should be strengthened by God’s grace (kindness), not by obeying rules about foods. Obeying those rules doesn’t help people.
Those gifts and sacrifices were only about food and drink and special washings. Those things were only rules about the body—\{not about things inside people’s hearts\}. God gave those rules \{for his people to follow\} until the time of God’s new way.