7 Bible Verses about Externals

"Listen to me, all of you, and understand; there is nothing outside a man which by entering in can defile him; but it is what comes from him that defiled him."

"Are even you without understanding?" he said. "Do you not perceive that nothing whatever from without can defile a man by entering him,

"Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but within they are filled with extortion and excess.

but the Lord said to him. "You Pharisee do cleanse the outside of your cup or plate, but your secret heart is full of extortion and wickedness.

For the real Jew is not the man who is one outwardly, and the real circumcision is not outward in the flesh;

For this reason, as I have said, I do not lose courage, but even though my outward man is wasting away, my inward man is being renewed, day by day.

Your adornment ought not to be the outward adornment of plaited hair and golden jewels and the wearing of beautiful dresses;