Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
KJV
ἐκ γὰρ τῆς καρδίας ἐξέρχονται διαλογισμοὶ πονηροί, φόνοι, μοιχεῖαι, πορνεῖαι, κλοπαί, ψευδομαρτυρίαι, βλασφημίαι.
Greek NT
de corde enim exeunt cogitationes malæ, homicidia, adulteria, fornicationes, furta, falsa testimonia, blasphemiæ :
Vulgate
For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, railings:
ASV
For from the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.
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9 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§1853Sins can be distinguished according to their objects, as can every human act; or according to the virtues they oppose, by excess or defect; or according to the commandments they violate. They can also be classed according to whether they concern God, neighbor, or oneself; they can be divided into spiritual and carnal sins, or again as sins in thought, word, deed, or omission. t…
§1968The Law of the Gospel fulfills the commandments of the Law. the Lord's Sermon on the Mount, far from abolishing or devaluing the moral prescriptions of the Old Law, releases their hidden potential and has new demands arise from them: it reveals their entire divine and human truth. It does not add new external precepts, but proceeds to reform the heart, the root of human acts, w…
§2517The heart is the seat of moral personality: "Out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication...."304 The struggle against carnal covetousness entails purifying the heart and practicing temperance: Remain simple and innocent, and you will be like little children who do not know the evil that destroys man's life.305
1. Paul wishing to show the difference between the New and Old [Covenant], scatters it everywhere; and shoots from afar, and noises it abroad, and prepares beforehand. For at once even from the introduction, he laid down this saying, that to them indeed He spoke by prophets, but to us by the Son c. i. 1, 2, and to them at sundry times and in various manners, but to us through t…
§77In order to offer rational criteria for a right moral decision, the theories mentioned above take account of the intention and consequences of human action. Certainly there is need to take into account both the intention — as Jesus forcefully insisted in clear disagreement with the scribes and Pharisees, who prescribed in great detail certain outward practices without paying at…
He also said, "He who sits alone and is quiet has escaped from three wars: hearing, speaking, seeing; but there is one thing against which he must continually fight: that is, his own heart."
Abba John said, "A guard set at the door of a bathhouse allows no unclean person to enter. In the same way we must guard our hearts, forbidding entry to impure thoughts."
Cross-references
- 1Sam 24:13 — As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.
- 1Thess 4:3 — For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
- 2Cor 10:5 — Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
- Acts 8:20 — But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.
- Acts 8:22 — Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.
- Acts 13:10 — And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
- 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
- Eccl 7:22 — For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.
- Eph 2:1 — And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
- Eph 5:3 — But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
- Exod 20:15 — Thou shalt not steal.
- 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
- 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
- Isa 32:6 — For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink
- 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 65:2 — I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;
- Jas 1:13 — Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
- 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 4:14 — O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
- 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?
- Lev 15:19 — And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even.
- Luke 11:39 — And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.
- Mal 2:15 — And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife
- Mark 7:21 — For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
- Mark 7:21 — For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
- Matt 9:4 — And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?
- Matt 23:25 — Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
- Matt 23:28 — Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
- Num 22:29 — And Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me: I would there were a sword in mine hand, for now would I kill thee.
- Prov 4:23 — Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
- Prov 4:23 — Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
- Prov 6:14 — Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
- Prov 12:17 — He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.