Mark 7:15

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Summary

There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.

Nothing

But

General references

Bible References

Nothing

And He *said to them, “Are you so lacking in understanding also? Do you not understand that whatever goes into the man from outside cannot defile him,

Whatever crawls on its belly, and whatever walks on all fours, whatever has many feet, in respect to every swarming thing that swarms on the earth, you shall not eat them, for they are detestable.

But Peter said, “By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten anything unholy and unclean.”

But I said, ‘By no means, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’

but that we write to them that they abstain from

things contaminated by idols and from fornication and from what is strangled and from blood.

for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Eat anything that is sold in the meat market without asking questions for conscience’ sake;

men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth.

To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

since they relate only to food and drink and various washings, regulations for the body imposed until a time of reformation.

Do not be carried away by varied and strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

But

And He was saying, “That which proceeds out of the man, that is what defiles the man.

Watch over your heart with all diligence,
For from it flow the springs of life.

You brood of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak what is good? For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart.

Jesus said, “Are you still lacking in understanding also?

General references

“Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘These are the creatures which you may eat from all the animals that are on the earth.

which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,

He who has ears, let him hear.”

And He was saying, “That which proceeds out of the man, that is what defiles the man.