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Mark 7:21

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

KJV

ἔσωθεν γὰρ ἐκ τῆς καρδίας τῶν ἀνθρώπων οἱ διαλογισμοὶ οἱ κακοὶ ἐκπορεύονται, πορνεῖαι, κλοπαί, φόνοι,

Greek NT

Ab intus enim de corde hominum malæ cogitationes procedunt, adulteria, fornicationes, homicidia,

Vulgate

For from within, out of the heart of men, evil thoughts proceed, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,

ASV

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
διαλογισμός
dialogismos
noun · 14×
κακός
kakos
adjective · 50×
καρδία
kardia
noun · 156×
κλοπή
klope
noun · 2×
πορνεία
porneia
noun · 25×
φόνος
phonos
noun · 9×
ἄνθρωπος
anthropos
noun · 549×
ἐκ
ek
preposition · 915×
ἐκπορεύομαι
ekporeuomai
verb · 33×
ἔσωθεν
esothen
adverb · 12×
o
article · 19778×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

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SBLGNT: πορνεῖαι κλοπαί φόνοι μοιχεῖαι , , , | WH/Treg/NIV: πορνεῖαι κλοπαί φόνοι μοιχεῖαι | RP: μοιχεῖαι πορνεῖαι φόνοι κλοπαί
  • πορνεῖαι κλοπαί φόνοι μοιχεῖαι , , ,SBLGNT
  • πορνεῖαι κλοπαί φόνοι μοιχεῖαιWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • μοιχεῖαι πορνεῖαι φόνοι κλοπαίRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Themes

Historic Christian voices

4 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…
§582Going even further, Jesus perfects the dietary law, so important in Jewish daily life, by revealing its pedagogical meaning through a divine interpretation: "Whatever goes into a man from outside cannot defile him. . . (Thus he declared all foods clean.). . . What comes out of a man is what defiles a man. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts. . ."346 In …
§1764The passions are natural components of the human psyche; they form the passageway and ensure the connection between the life of the senses and the life of the mind. Our Lord called man's heart the source from which the passions spring.40

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 3:3 — For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
  • 1Cor 5:11 — But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one n
  • 1Pet 4:2 — That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
  • 1Pet 4:2 — That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
  • 1Tim 1:10 — For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
  • Acts 5:4 — Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
  • Acts 8:22 — Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.
  • Col 3:5 — Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
  • Deut 15:9 — Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cr
  • Eph 5:3 — But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
  • Ezek 38:10 — Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
  • Ezek 38:10 — Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
  • Gal 5:19 — Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
  • Gal 5:19 — Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
  • Gen 6:5 — And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
  • Gen 6:5 — And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
  • Gen 8:21 — And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will
  • Heb 3:12 — Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
  • Heb 12:16 — Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
  • Isa 55:7 — Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
  • Isa 59:7 — Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
  • Isa 59:7 — Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
  • Isa 59:13 — In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
  • Jas 1:14 — But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
  • Jas 1:14 — But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
  • Jas 2:4 — Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?
  • Jas 4:1 — From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
  • Jas 4:1 — From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
  • Jer 4:14 — O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
  • Jer 16:12 — And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:
  • Jer 17:9 — The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
  • Jer 17:9 — The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
  • Jer 18:12 — And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.
  • Job 14:4 — Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
  • Job 15:12 — Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
  • Job 15:14 — What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
  • Job 25:4 — How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
  • Luke 7:39 — Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spake within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him: for she is
  • Luke 16:15 — And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
  • Matt 3:9 — And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.