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Matthew 15:19
19Evil thoughts come out from people's minds. As a result, they do wrong things. They murder people. They have sex with another man's wife. They have sex in other wrong ways. They rob people. They tell lies about other people. They insult people.
Matthew 15:19 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
- New International Version (NIV)For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.
Context of Matthew 15:19
17You should understand that food first goes into people's mouths. Then it goes into their stomach, and then it passes out of their body. 18The words that people speak come from their thoughts. It is what comes out of their mouths that makes them unclean. Evil thoughts come out from people's minds. As a result, they do wrong things. They murder people. They have sex with another man's wife. They have sex in other wrong ways. They rob people. They tell lies about other people. They insult people. 20It is these bad things that make people unclean. But if people eat food when they have not washed their hands in the right way, that will not make them unclean.’ 21Then, Jesus left that place. He went away to some places near to the cities called Tyre and Sidon.
Read all of Matthew 15Matthew 15:19 word by word
ἐκ γὰρ τῆς καρδίας ἐξέρχονται διαλογισμοὶ πονηροί, φόνοι, μοιχεῖαι, πορνεῖαι, κλοπαί, ψευδομαρτυρίαι, βλασφημίαι.Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- Forγάρgar · forG1063
- outἐκek ex · out fromG1537
- of the heartὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
- of the heartκαρδίαkardia · heartG2588
- proceedἐξέρχομαιexerchomai · to go outG1831
- evilπονηρόςponēros · evil/badG4190
- thoughtsδιαλογισμόςdialogismos · reasoningG1261
- murdersφόνοςphonos · murderG5408
- adulteriesμοιχείαmoicheia · adulteryG3430
- fornicationsπορνείαporneia · sexual sinG4202
- theftsκλοπήklopē · theftG2829
- false witnessψευδομαρτυρίαpseudomarturia · false testimonyG5577
- blasphemiesβλασφημίαblasphēmia · blasphemyG988
Cross-references for Matthew 15:19
- Genesis 6:5The Lord saw that men and women on the earth had become very bad. They thought only of evil things all the time.
- Genesis 8:21The Lord smelled the sacrifice and it made him happy. The Lord said to himself, ‘I will never curse the ground again because of the bad things that people do. From the time that they are children, they want to do bad things. But I will never again destroy everything that breathes, as I have done this time.
- Proverbs 4:23Be very careful to keep your mind safe. The thoughts that you think make you the person that you are.
- Proverbs 6:14He uses evil thoughts to decide how he will hurt people. Wherever he goes, there is trouble.
- Proverbs 22:15Children love to do foolish things. To stop them, you must warn and punish them.
- Proverbs 24:9If you decide to do something foolish, that is a sin. People hate anyone who laughs at others.
- Jeremiah 17:9A person's own mind deceives him, more than anything else does. Nobody can change it to be better. Nobody completely understands it.
- Mark 7:21Evil thoughts come out from people's minds. As a result they do wrong things. They have sex in wrong ways. They rob people. They murder people.
- Romans 3:10This is written in the Bible: ‘There is nobody who is right with God. There is not even one person who is like that.
- Romans 7:18I know that there is nothing good in me. I am weak and human. I want to do what is good. But I am unable to do it.
- Romans 8:7If our weak human thoughts rule us, we become God's enemies. People like that do not want to obey God's Law. They are not even able to obey it.
- Galatians 5:19Everyone knows the kinds of bad things that weak people want to do. They have sex with people that they are not married to. They do things that are bad and disgusting.
- Ephesians 2:1Remember how you lived before. You did wrong things and bad things. As a result, you were dead in your spirits.
- Matthew 9:4Jesus knew what the teachers were thinking. So he said to them, ‘You should not think these bad things in your minds.
- Psalms 119:113I hate hypocrites, but I love your Law.
- Isaiah 55:7Wicked people need to change the way that they live. Evil people must stop thinking their evil thoughts. They must turn back to the Lord our God, because he will be kind to them. Yes, God will completely forgive them, if they turn back to him.
Commentaries on Matthew 15:19
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 19Out of the heart - In the heart of an unregenerate man, the principles and seeds of all sin are found. And iniquity is always conceived in the heart before it be spoken or acted. Is there any hope that a man can abstain from outward sin till his heart, that abominable fountain of corruption, be thoroughly cleansed? I trow not. Evil thoughts - , wicked dialogues - for in all evil surmisings the heart holds a conversation, or dialogue, with itself. For…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 15-20Verses 15-20 See also Mark 7:17-23. Then answered Peter, and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable - See the notes at Matthew 13:3. The word “parable” sometimes means a dark or obscure saying, Psalm 78:2. Peter meant, “Explain to us more fully this obscure and novel doctrine.” To us, now, it is plain; to the disciples, just coming out of Judaism, the doctrine of Jesus was obscure. Mark says that the disciples asked him. There is no contradiction…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 10-20Verses 10-20 Christ shows that the defilement they ought to fear, was not from what entered their mouths as food, but from what came out of their mouths, which showed the wickedness of their hearts. Nothing will last in the soul but the regenerating graces of the Holy Spirit; and nothing should be admitted into the church but what is from above; therefore, whoever is offended by a plain, seasonable declaration of the truth, we should not be troubled at…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-20Jesus accused the Pharisees of disobeying God's law because of their focus on preserving traditions.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1919. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts--"evil reasonings"; referring here more immediately to those corrupt reasonings which had stealthily introduced and gradually reared up that hideous fabric of tradition which at length practically nullified the unchangeable principles of the moral law. But the statement is far broader than this; namely that the first shape which the evil that is in the heart takes, when it begins actively to stir, is that of…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Matthew 15
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Catena Aurea
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- John Lightfoot Commentary
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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