7 Bible Verses about Externals

there is nothing from without, that entring into a man can defile him: but that which originally proceeds from the man, is what defiles him.

and he said, are you likewise so void of understanding? don't you perceive that what passes from without into a man cannot defile him?

wo unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; for ye clean the outside of the cup, and of the plate, but within they are full of rapine and impurity.

upon which the Lord said to him, you Pharisees won't leave any filth upon the outside of a cup or a platter: while your consciences are abandon'd to rapine, and sensuality.

for it is not the Jew in outward appearance, neither is it the external mark of circumcision:

for which cause I am not discouraged, but tho' my body decays, yet my mind is daily renewed.

let their ornament consist, not in what is external, in curling the hair, in appendages of gold, or finery of dress;