7 Bible Verses about Externals

There is nothing with out that, by entering into a man, can defile him. But those things which come out of the man, defile him.

And he said to them: Are you also so void of understanding? Do you not perceive that nothing from without, by entering into a man, can defile him?

Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you make clean the outside of the cup and the plate; but within they are full of rapine and excess.

And the Lord said to him: Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and the plate; but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.

For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh:

For this reason we faint not: but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day. by day.

Let not your adorning be that which is outward, which consists in plaiting the hair, and wearing gold, and putting on apparel: