7 Bible Verses about Externals
Most Relevant Verses
There is nothing outside of a person that can defile him by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles him."
He said to them, "Are you so foolish? Don't you understand that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him?
"Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
But the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.
For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision something that is outward in the flesh,
Therefore we do not despair, but even if our physical body is wearing away, our inner person is being renewed day by day.
Let your beauty not be external -- the braiding of hair and wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes --