7 Bible Verses about Externals

Nothing that goes into a man from the outside can make him foul, but the things that come from the inside of a man are the things that make him foul."

And He answered them, "Are you too without understanding yet? Do you not know that nothing from the outside that goes into a man can make him foul,

A curse on you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of your greed and self-indulgence.

But the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees have the habit of cleaning the outside of your cups and dishes, but inside you yourselves are full of greed and wickedness.

For the real Jew is not the man who is a Jew on the outside, and real circumcision is not outward physical circumcision.

So I never give up; instead, although my outer nature is wasting away, my inner nature is constantly renewed from day to day.

Your adornments must be not of an external nature, with braids of hair or ornaments of gold, or changes of dress,