Mark 7:22

Jesus continued listing sins of the heart: covetousness, deceit, pride, and more. The catalog shows the breadth of corruption within fallen humanity.

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• Matt 20:15Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?
• Obad 1:3–4The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?
• Eccl 7:25I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:
• 2 Cor 10:5Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
• 1 Pet 2:15For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
• 1 Pet 5:5Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
• Matt 6:23But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
• Deut 28:54So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:
• 1 Sam 18:8–9And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom?
• 2 Chr 32:25–26But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.
• Deut 28:56The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,
• Prov 27:22Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
• 2 Chr 32:31Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.
• Prov 22:15Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
• Ps 10:4The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
• Prov 24:9The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.
• Deut 15:9Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee.
• Prov 28:22He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.
• Prov 12:23A prudent man concealeth knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness.
• Prov 23:6Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:

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