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Mark 7:15

There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.

KJV

οὐδέν ἐστιν ἔξωθεν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου εἰσπορευόμενον εἰς αὐτὸν ὃ δύναται κοινῶσαι αὐτόν· ἀλλὰ τὰ ἐκ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐκπορευόμενά ἐστιν τὰ κοινοῦντα τὸν ἄνθρωπον.

Greek NT

Nihil est extra hominem introiens in eum, quod possit eum coinquinare, sed quæ de homine procedunt illa sunt quæ communicant hominem.

Vulgate

there is nothing from without the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.

ASV

There is nothing from without a man that entering into him can defile him. But the things which come from a man, those are they that defile a man.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
δύναμαι
dunamai
verb · 209×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
εἰσπορεύομαι
eisporeuomai
verb · 18×
κοινόω
koinoo
verb · 14×
οὐδείς
oudeis
adjective · 235×
ἀλλά
alla
conjunction · 636×
ἄνθρωπος
anthropos
noun · 549×
ἐκ
ek
preposition · 915×
ἐκπορεύομαι
ekporeuomai
verb · 33×
ἔξωθεν
exothen
adverb · 13×
o
article · 19778×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×

Textual variants

3 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: κοινῶσαι αὐτόν | WH/NIV: κοινῶσαι αὐτόν | Treg/RP: αὐτὸν κοινῶσαι
  • κοινῶσαι αὐτόνSBLGNT
  • κοινῶσαι αὐτόνWestcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • αὐτὸν κοινῶσαιTregelles, Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
notable
SBLGNT: ἐκ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐκπορευόμενά | WH/NIV: ἐκ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐκπορευόμενά | Treg: + ἐκεῖνά | RP: ἐκπορευόμενα ἀπ᾽ αὐτοῦ ἐκεῖνά
  • ἐκ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐκπορευόμενάSBLGNT
  • ἐκ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐκπορευόμενάWestcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • + ἐκεῖνάTregelles
  • ἐκπορευόμενα ἀπ᾽ αὐτοῦ ἐκεῖνάRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
notable
SBLGNT: ἄνθρωπον | WH/NIV: ἄνθρωπον | Treg/RP: + 16 Εἴ τις ἔχει ὦτα ἀκούειν ἀκουέτω
  • ἄνθρωπονSBLGNT
  • ἄνθρωπονWestcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • + 16 Εἴ τις ἔχει ὦτα ἀκούειν ἀκουέτωTregelles, Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§574From the beginning of Jesus' public ministry, certain Pharisees and partisans of Herod together with priests and scribes agreed together to destroy him.317 Because of certain acts of his expelling demons, forgiving sins, healing on the sabbath day, his novel interpretation of the precepts of the Law regarding purity, and his familiarity with tax collectors and public sinners318…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 10:25 — Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake:
  • 1Tim 4:3 — Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
  • Acts 10:14 — But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.
  • Acts 10:28 — And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man commo
  • Acts 11:8 — But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth.
  • Acts 15:20 — But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
  • Heb 9:10 — Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
  • Heb 13:9 — Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
  • Jas 3:6 — And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
  • Lev 11:42 — Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever goeth upon all four, or whatsoever hath more feet among all creeping things that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat; for they are an abominatio
  • Mark 7:18 — And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;
  • Mark 7:20 — And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
  • Mark 7:23 — All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
  • Matt 12:34 — O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
  • Matt 15:11 — Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
  • Matt 15:16 — And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?
  • Prov 4:23 — Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
  • Rev 2:7 — He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
  • Rom 14:17 — For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
  • Titus 1:15 — Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.