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 desperately wicked: who can know it?
• Jas 4:1–3From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
• Rom 8:7–8Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
• Matt 15:19For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
• Gal 5:19–21Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
• Ezek 38:10Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
• Acts 8:22Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.
• Jer 4:14O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
• Matt 9:4And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?
• Jas 2:4Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?
• Prov 4:23Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
• Matt 23:25–28Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
• Luke 16:15And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
• Jas 1:14–15But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
• Ps 14:3They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
• Ps 58:2–3Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
• Ps 53:3Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
• Isa 59:7Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
• Rom 7:8But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
• Prov 15:25The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.
• Job 15:14–16What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
• Acts 5:4Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
• Gen 8:21And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
• Job 25:4How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
• 1 Pet 4:2–3That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
• Job 14:4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
• Ps 14:1The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
• Gen 6:5And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
• Rom 7:5For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
• Ps 53:1The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.
• Titus 3:3For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

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