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 lest you entertain the wicked thought that the seventh year, the year of cancellation of debts, has almost arrived, and your attitude be wrong toward your impoverished fellow Israelite and you do not lend him anything; he will cry out to the Lord against you and you will be regarded as having sinned.

The man among you who is by nature tender and sensitive will turn against his brother, his beloved wife, and his remaining children.

This made Saul very angry. The statement displeased him and he thought, "They have attributed to David tens of thousands, but to me they have attributed only thousands. What does he lack, except the kingdom?"

Do not eat the food of a stingy person, do not crave his delicacies;

The stingy person hastens after riches and does not know that poverty will overtake him.

Am I not permitted to do what I want with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?'

Pride

But Hezekiah was ungrateful; he had a proud attitude, provoking God to be angry at him, as well as Judah and Jerusalem.

The wicked man is so arrogant he always thinks, "God won't hold me accountable; he doesn't care."

Your presumptuous heart has deceived you -- you who reside in the safety of the rocky cliffs, whose home is high in the mountains. You think to yourself, 'No one can bring me down to the ground!'

and every arrogant obstacle that is raised up against the knowledge of God, and we take every thought captive to make it obey Christ.

In the same way, you who are younger, 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

The shrewd person conceals knowledge, but foolish people publicize folly.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him.

A foolish scheme is sin, and the scorner is an abomination to people.

If you should pound the fool in the mortar among the grain with the pestle, his foolishness would not depart from him.

I tried to understand, examine, and comprehend the role of wisdom in the scheme of things, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the insanity of folly.

For God wants you to silence the ignorance of foolish people by doing good.

General references

"'When a woman's discharge of blood flows many days not at the time of her menstruation, or if it flows beyond the time of her menstruation, all the days of her discharge of impurity will be like the days of her menstruation -- she is unclean.

The human mind is more deceitful than anything else. It is incurably bad. Who can understand it?