Mark 7:22

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Summary

Mark 7:22

Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

Covetousness, wickedness

Pride

1 Peter 5:5

Foolishness

General references

Leviticus 15:25

Jeremiah 17:9

Bible References

Covetousness, wickedness

Take thou heed to thyself lest there be something near thine abandoned heart, saying - Drawing nigh, is the seventh year the year of release, and so thine eye be evil, against thy needy brother, and thou give not unto him, - and he cry out against thee unto Yahweh, and it become in thee a sin!

The man that is tender among you, and exceedingly delicate, his eye will be jealous of his brother and of the wife of his bosom, and of the remnant of his sons, whom be might leave behind;

Then was Saul exceeding angry, and this saying was offensive in his eyes, and he said, - They have ascribed, to David, ten thousands, but, to me, have they ascribed thousands, - What, more, then, can he have but, the kingdom?

Do not eat the food of him that hath a begrudging eye, neither crave thou his dainties;

A man, hasting to be rich, hath an evil eye, and knoweth not when want may overtake him.

Is it not allowed me to do, what I please, with my own? or is, thine eye, evil, because I good?

Pride

But, not according to the benefit done unto him, did Hezekiah make return, for uplifted was his heart, - and so there came upon him, wrath, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.

The lawless one, in the loftiness of his countenance, will not enquire, God is not in any of his plots:

The insolence of thy heart, hath deceived thee, O thou that inhabitest the retreats of the crag, the height of his habitation, - that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?

When we pull down, calculations, and every height that uplifteth itself against the knowledge of God, and when we bring into captivity every thought unto the obedience of the Christ,

In like manner, ye younger men - submit yourselves unto elders; - All, however, one towards another, gird on humility; because, God, against the haughty, arrayeth himself, whereas, unto the lowly, he giveth favour.

Foolishness

A prudent man, concealeth knowledge, but, the heart of dullards, proclaimeth folly.

Foolishness, is bound up in the heart of a youth, the rod of correction, shall drive it far from him.

The purpose of folly, is sin, and, an abomination to mankind, is a buffoon.

Though thou pound a fool in a mortar, amidst grain, with a pestle, his folly, will not depart from him.

Resolved, I, in my heart, to know and search out, and to seek wisdom, and a conclusion, - and to know lawlessness to be stupidity, and folly to be madness.

Because, so, is the will of God, - by doing good, to be putting to silence, the ignorance of heedless men:

General references

And when any woman's, flow of blood lasteth many day, outside the time of her removal, or when it floweth beyond her removal, all the days of her unclean flow, shall she be as in the days of her removal - unclean, she is.

Deceitful is the heart above all things And, dangerously wayward, - Who can know it?