7 Bible Verses about Externals
Most Relevant Verses
There is nothing outside the man which, going into him, is able to make him unclean: but the things which come out of the man are those which make the man unclean.
And he said to them, Have even you so little wisdom? Do you not see that whatever goes into a man from outside is not able to make him unclean,
A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of violent behaviour and uncontrolled desire.
And the Lord said to him, You Pharisees make the outside of the cup and the plate clean; but inside you are thieves and full of evil.
The true Jew is not one who is only so publicly, and circumcision is not that which may be seen in the flesh:
For which cause we do not give way to weariness; but though our outer man is getting feebler, our inner man is made new day by day.
Do not let your ornaments be those of the body such as dressing of the hair, or putting on of jewels of gold or fair clothing;