Mark 7:15 - New International Version (Anglicised)

¹⁵ Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ 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

¹⁵ 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)

¹⁵ 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

¹⁵ 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

¹⁵ 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

¹⁵ 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.

Mark 7:15 Tagairtí Cros

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.

Mark 7:16

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.