Mark 7:21

Defilement From Within

²⁰ For he had said that it is what comes out of the man that defiles the man. ²¹ For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed the evil thoughts, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, ²² the thefts, the covetousness, the wickedness, the deceit, the lasciviousness, the evil eye, the slander, the pride, the unwiseness:

Out of the Heart

Sexual Immorality

Hearts Of Men

Mark

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who shall know it?

Genesis 6:5

And 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.

Genesis 8:21

And the LORD smelled a savour of rest, and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, for the intent of man's heart is evil from his childhood; neither will I again smite any more every living thing as I have done.

Job 14:4

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one.

Job 15:14-16

What is man that he should be clean and that he that is born of a woman should be justified?

Job 25:4

How then can man be justified with God? Or how can he that is born of a woman be clean?

Psalm 14:1

The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is no one that does good.

Psalm 14:3

They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is no one that does good, no, not one.

Psalm 53:1

The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They have corrupted themselves and have done abominable iniquity; there is no one that does good.

Psalm 53:3

Every one of them is gone back; they are altogether become filthy; there is no one that does good, no, not one.

Psalm 58:2-3

Yea, in heart ye work iniquity; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

Proverbs 4:23

Above all else, guard thy heart; for out of it flows the issues of life.

Proverbs 15:25

The LORD will destroy the house of the proud, but he will establish the inheritance of the widow.

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are their paths.

Jeremiah 4:14

O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness that thou may be saved. How long shalt thou entertain the thoughts of thy iniquity within thee?

Ezekiel 38:10

Thus hath the Lord GOD said: It shall also come to pass in that day, that words shall rise up in thy heart, and thou shalt conceive an evil thought:

Matthew 9:4

And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Why think ye evil in your hearts?

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

Matthew 23:25-28

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup or of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and incontinence.

Luke 16:15

And he said unto them, Ye are they who justify themselves before men, but God knows your hearts, for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

Acts 5:4

Retaining it, was it not thy own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? Why hast thou conceived this thing in thy heart? Thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.

Acts 8:22

Repent therefore of this thy wickedness and pray God, if perhaps this thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.

Romans 7:5

For while we were in the flesh, the affections of the sins which were by the law worked in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

Romans 7:8

Then sin, when there was occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of lust. For without the law sin was as if it were dormant.

Romans 8:7-8

because the prudence of the flesh is enmity against God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, neither indeed can it.

Galatians 5:19-21

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves also were foolish in another time, rebellious, deceived, serving diverse lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

James 1:14-15

But each one is tempted, when they are drawn away of their own lust and enticed.

James 2:4

Are ye not then judging in yourselves and are become judges of evil thoughts?

James 4:1-3

Where do the wars and disputes come from among you? From here that is to say, of your lusts which fight in your members?

1 Peter 4:2-3

so that now the time that remains in the flesh, he might live, not unto the lusts of men, but unto the will of God.