Mark 7:21

Defilement From Within

²⁰ but, said he, that which proceeds from a man, is what defiles him: ²¹ for from within, from the heart of man proceed wicked designs, adulteries, fornications, murders; thefts, ²² avarice, malice, fraud, impudence, envy, scandal, pride, vanity.

Out of the Heart

Sexual Immorality

Hearts Of Men

Mark

Matthew 9:4

and Jesus perceiving their reflections, said, why do you entertain so bad an opinion?

Matthew 15:19

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

Matthew 23:25-28

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.

Luke 16:15

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.

Acts 5:4

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.

Acts 8:22

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

Romans 7:5

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.

Romans 7:8

but sin receiving strength by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. for before the law sin appear'd dead.

Romans 8:7-8

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

Galatians 5:19-21

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

Titus 3:3

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.

James 1:14-15

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

James 2:4

have not you made an arbitrary distinction, don't your judgments flow from a vicious principle?

James 4:1-3

you breathe slaughter and revenge for what you cannot obtain.

1 Peter 4:2-3

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.