Mark 7:21

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Mark 7:21

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

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out of the heart proceed evil designs, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimony, slanders.

wo unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; for ye clean the outside of the cup, and of the plate, but within they are full of rapine and impurity.

but he said to them, you pretend to piety before men, which, however they may admire, is an abomination to God, who knows your real temper.

was not the estate your own estate? and was not the price for which it was sold, all in your own hands? how came such a design as this in your heart? thou hast not lyed unto men, but unto God.

repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray to God, to forgive, if it be possible, this suggestion you have entertain'd.

for when we were in the carnal state of the law, the sinful passions of that state set our animal faculties to work in the service of death.

because a sensual disposition of mind is averse to God: for it is not subject to the divine law, nor indeed can it be.

now the effects of vicious passions are manifestly these, fornication, uncleanness,

for even we ourselves were once inconsiderate, disobedient, deluded, addicted to variety of passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, the deserving objects of mutual hatred.

a man is instigated, and drawn into the snare by his own vicious passions, which once indulg'd, are productive of sin,

you breathe slaughter and revenge for what you cannot obtain.

so that for the future he does not pass the rest of this life in gratifying his sensual passions, but in conformity to the divine precepts.