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 care} so that there will not be {a thought of wickedness} in your heart, {saying}, 'The seventh year, the year of the remission of debt is near,' {and you view your needy neighbor with hostility}, and [so] you [do] not give to him, and he might cry [out] against you to Yahweh, and {you would incur guilt against yourself}.

The most refined and the very sensitive man among you {shall be mean with his brother} and {against his beloved wife} and against the rest of his children that he has left over,

{Saul became very angry}, and {this saying displeased him}, and he thought, "They have attributed to David ten thousands, but to me they have attributed thousands! {What more can he have but the kingdom}?"

Do not eat the bread of {the stingy}, and do not desire his delicacies.

He who hurries for wealth is {a man with an evil eye}, but he does not know that poverty will come upon him.

Is it not permitted for me to do whatever I want with [what is] mine? Or is your eye evil because I am generous?'

Pride

But Hezekiah did not reciprocate according to the benefit [placed] upon him, because his heart became proud. So wrath was upon him and upon Judah and Jerusalem.

{With bald-faced pride} [the] wicked will not seek [God]. There is no God in any of his thoughts.

The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of a rock, the heights of its dwelling, [you who] say in your heart: 'Who can bring me down [to the] ground?'

and all pride that is raised up against the knowledge of God, and taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.

In the same way, younger men, be subject to the elders, and all [of you] clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

Foolishness

A clever person conceals knowledge, but the heart of a fool announces folly.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a boy; [the] rod of discipline will drive it from him.

Devising folly [is] a sin, and an abomination to humankind [is] a scoffer.

If you crush a fool in the mortar with the pestle {along with} the crushed grain, it will not drive folly from upon him.

I set my mind to try to seek wisdom and the plan, and to know that wickedness [is] foolishness and that folly [is] delusion.

For the will of God is as follows: [by] doing good to silence the ignorance of foolish people.

General references

" 'And when a woman discharges a body fluid [consisting] of her blood [for] many days, [but] not [at] the time of her menstruation, or when she discharges in addition to her menstruation, all the days of her unclean body fluid discharge she shall become unclean as [in] the days of her menstruation.

The heart [is] deceitful more than anything else, and it [is] disastrous. Who can understand it?