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

Be careful not to think this wicked thought to yourselves: "The seventh year, the year of remission, is drawing near,' and you show ill will toward your poor relative and not give to him. He may then call to the LORD on account of you, and you will be guilty of sin.

Even the compassionate man among you the very sensitive one will look with evil in his eyes toward his brother, his beloved wife, and his surviving sons, whom he spared.

Saul was very angry and he did not like what the women sang. He told himself, "They have attributed tens of thousands to David, but to me they have attributed thousands. What else can he have but the kingdom?"

Don't consume food provided by a miserly person, and don't desire his delicacies,

The miser is in a hurry to get wealthy, but he isn't aware that poverty will catch up with him.

I am allowed to do what I want with my own money, am I not? Or are you envious because I'm generous?'

Pride

But Hezekiah's response wasn't commensurate with what had been done for him because he was arrogant in heart, so wrath came upon him, upon Judah, and upon Jerusalem.

With haughty arrogance, the wicked thinks, "God will not seek justice." He always presumes "There is no God."

The arrogance in your heart has deceived you, who inhabit hidden places on rocky cliffs, whose dwelling is in the heights, who say continuously to yourself, 'Who will bring me down to the ground?'

and every proud obstacle that is raised against the knowledge of God, taking every thought captive in order to obey the Messiah.

In a similar way, you young people must submit to the elders. All of you must clothe yourselves with humility for the sake of each other, because: "God opposes the arrogant, but gives grace to the humble."

Foolishness

A prudent man keeps what he knows to himself, but the hearts of fools shout forth their foolishness.

A child's heart has a tendency to do wrong, but the rod of discipline removes it far away from him.

To devise folly is sin, and people detest a scoffer.

Though you crush a fool in a mortar and pestle as someone might crush grain, his stupidity still won't leave him.

I committed myself to understand, to learn, to search for wisdom and explanations, and to understand both the evil that is foolishness and the stupidity that is delusion.

For it is God's will that by doing right you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish people.

General references

"When a woman has a continuous discharge of blood many days beyond the time of her menstrual uncleanness, or if she has a discharge that lasts beyond the days of her menstrual uncleanness, her uncleanness is to be treated like the days of her menstruation she's unclean.

"The heart is more deceitful than anything. It is incurable who can know it?