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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For out of the heart come evil designs, murder, adultery, sexual vice, stealing, false witness, and slander.

Woe to you, you irreligious scribes and Pharisees! you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are filled with your rapacity and self-indulgence.

So he told them, "You are the people who get men to think you are good, but God knows what your hearts are! What is lofty in the view of man is loathsome in the eyes of God.

When it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And even after the sale, was the money not yours to do as you pleased about it? How could you think of doing a thing like this? You have not defrauded men but God."

So repent of this wickedness of yours, and ask God whether you cannot be forgiven for your heart's purpose.

For when we were unspiritual, the sinful cravings excited by the Law were active in our members and made us fruitful to Death;

For the interests of the flesh are hostile to God; they do not yield to the law of God (indeed they cannot).

Now the deeds of the flesh are quite obvious, such as sexual vice, impurity, sensuality,

For we ourselves were once senseless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to all manner of passions and pleasures; we spent our days in malice and envy, we were hateful, and we hated one another.

Everyone is tempted as he is beguiled and allured by his own desire;

Where do conflicts, where do wrangles come from, in your midst? Is it not from these passions of yours that war among your members?

nerve you to spend the rest of your time in the flesh for the will of God and no longer for human passions.