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, "So are you also without understanding? Do you not understand that everything [that is] outside that goes into a person [is] not able to defile him?

You must not eat anything that moves upon its belly or that walks on [all] fours, even any [with] numerous feet [belonging] to any swarmer that swarms on the land, because they [are] detestable.

But Peter said, "Certainly not, Lord! For I have never eaten anything common and unclean!"

But I said, 'Certainly not, Lord! For nothing common or unclean has ever entered into my mouth!'

but we should write a letter to them to abstain from the pollution of idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been 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 everything that is sold in the meat market, {asking no questions} for the sake of the conscience,

who forbid marrying [and insist on] abstaining from foods that God created for sharing in with thankfulness by those who believe and who 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 conscience are defiled.

concerning [instead] only food and drink and different washings, regulations of outward things imposed until the time of setting [things] right.

Do not be carried away by various and strange teachings, for [it is] good [for] the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods by which those who participate have not benefited.

But

And he said, "What comes out of a person, that defiles a person.

With all vigilance, keep your heart, for from it [comes] the source of life.

Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say good things [when you] are evil? For from the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

But he said, "Are you also still without understanding?

General references

"Speak to the {Israelites}, saying, 'These [are] the animals that you may eat from all the animals that [are] on the land:

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

The one who has ears, let him hear!"

And he said, "What comes out of a person, that defiles a person.