7 Bible Verses about Externals
Most Relevant Verses
nothing outside a man can defile him by entering him; it is what comes from him that defiles him.
He said to them, "So you do not understand, either? Do you not see how nothing outside a man can defile him by entering him?
Woe to you, you irreligious scribes and Pharisees! you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are filled with your rapacity and self-indulgence.
but the Lord said to him, "You Pharisees do clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but your inner life is filled with rapacity and malice.
He is no Jew who is merely a Jew outwardly, nor is circumcision something outward in the flesh;
Hence I never lose heart; though my outward man decays, my inner man is renewed day after day.
You are not to adorn yourselves on the outside with braids of hair and ornaments of gold and changes of dress,