Mark 7:21
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
Mark 7:21 in other translations
| BSB | For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, |
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| WEB | For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, |
| ASV | For from within, out of the heart of men, evil thoughts proceed, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, |
| YLT | for from within, out of the heart of men, the evil reasonings do come forth, adulteries, whoredoms, murders, |
| DARBY | For from within, out of the heart of men, go forth evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, |
| BBE | Because from inside, from the heart of men, come evil thoughts and unclean pleasures, |
| Webster | For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, |
What does Mark 7:21 mean?
Barnes' Notes
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Mark 7:14-23
Our wicked thoughts and affections, words and actions, defile us, and these only. As a corrupt fountain sends forth corrupt streams, so does a corrupt heart send forth corrupt reasonings, corrupt appetites and passions, and all the wicked words and actions that come from them. A spiritual understanding of the law of God, and a sense of the evil of sin, will cause a man to seek for the grace of the Holy Spirit, to…
Mark 7:21 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Mark 7:21
- Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
- James 4:1-3
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
- Romans 8:7-8
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
- Galatians 5:19-21
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
- Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
- Acts 8:22
Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.
- Ezekiel 38:10
Thus 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:
- Jeremiah 4:14
O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
- James 2:4
Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?
- Matthew 9:4
And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?
- Proverbs 4:23
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
- Matthew 23:25-28
Woe 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. Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Ge 6:5; 8:21; Job 14:4; 15:14-16; 25:4; Ps 14:1,3; 53:1,3; 58:2,3
Pr 4:23; Jer 4:14; 17:9; Mt 15:19; 23:25-28; Lu 16:15; Ac 5:4; 8:22
Ro 7:5,8; 8:7,8; Ga 5:19-21; Tit 3:3; Jas 1:14,15; 4:1-3; 1Pe 4:2,3
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Pr 15:25; Isa 59:7; Eze 38:10; Mt 9:4; Jas 2:4
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Context
- Mark 7:20
And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
- Mark 7:21
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
- Mark 7:22
Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
Mark 7:21 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Porque de dentro, del corazón de los hombres, salen los malos pensamientos, los adulterios, las fornicaciones, los homicidios, |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | car du dedans, du cœur des hommes, sortent les mauvaises pensées, les adultères, les fornications, les meurtres, |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Denn von innen aus dem Herzen der Menschen gehen hervor die schlechten Gedanken, Ehebruch, Hurerei, Mord, |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Ab intus enim de corde hominum malæ cogitationes procedunt, adulteria, fornicationes, homicidia, |