Mark 7:21

Jesus said evil thoughts and many sins proceed from within the human heart. It teaches the deep, internal root of human sinfulness.

Cross-references · 31

• Jer 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?
• Jas 4:1–3Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
• Rom 8:7–8because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.
• Matt 15:19For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
• Gal 5:19–21Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,
• Ezek 38:10Thus says the Lord Yahweh: It shall happen in that day, that things shall come into your mind, and you shall devise an evil device:
• Acts 8:22Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.
• Jer 4:14Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?
• Matt 9:4Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?
• Jas 2:4haven’t you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?
• Prov 4:23Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.
• Matt 23:25–28“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness.
• Luke 16:15He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
• Jas 1:14–15But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.
• Ps 14:3They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.
• Ps 58:2–3No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.
• Ps 53:3Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy together. There is no one who does good, no, not one.
• Isa 59:7Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. desolation and destruction are in their paths.
• Rom 7:8But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
• Prov 15:25Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow’s borders intact.
• Job 15:14–16What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
• Acts 5:4While you kept it, didn’t it remain your own? After it was sold, wasn’t it in your power? How is it that you have conceived this thing in your heart? You haven’t lied to men, but to God.”
• Gen 8:21Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.
• Job 25:4How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
• 1 Pet 4:2–3that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.
• Job 14:4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
• Ps 14:1For the Chief Musician. By David. The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.
• Gen 6:5Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.
• Rom 7:5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.
• Ps 53:1For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Mahalath.” A contemplation by David. The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good.
• Titus 3:3For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

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