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 beyond cure. Who can understand it?
• Jas 4:1–3What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?
• Rom 8:7–8because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
• Matt 15:19For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.
• Gal 5:19–21The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
• Ezek 38:10This is what the Lord GOD says: On that day, thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.
• Acts 8:22Repent, therefore, of your wickedness, and pray to the Lord. Perhaps He will forgive you for the intent of your heart.
• Jer 4:14Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?
• Matt 9:4But Jesus knew what they were thinking and said, “Why do you harbor evil in your hearts?
• Jas 2:4have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?
• Prov 4:23Guard your heart with all diligence, for from it flow springs of life.
• Matt 23:25–28Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
• Luke 16:15So He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is prized among men is detestable before God.
• Jas 1:14–15But each one is tempted when by his own evil desires he is lured away and enticed.
• Ps 14:3All have turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.
• Ps 58:2–3No, in your hearts you devise injustice; with your hands you mete out violence on the earth.
• Ps 53:3All have turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.
• Isa 59:7Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction lie in their wake.
• Rom 7:8But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
• Prov 15:25The LORD tears down the house of the proud, but He protects the boundaries of the widow.
• Job 15:14–16What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
• Acts 5:4Did it not belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? How could you conceive such a deed in your heart? You have not lied to men, but to God!”
• Gen 8:21When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.
• Job 25:4How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
• 1 Pet 4:2–3Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God.
• Job 14:4Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!
• Ps 14:1For the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their acts are vile. There is no one who does good.
• Gen 6:5Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.
• Rom 7:5For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.
• Ps 53:1For the choirmaster. According to Mahalath. A Maskil of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their ways are vile. There is no one who does good.
• Titus 3:3For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.

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