Mark 7:22

Mark 7:22 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
• English Standard Version (ESV)coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.
• New King James Version (NKJV)thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.
• New Living Translation (NLT)adultery, greed, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness.

Context of Mark 7:22

20He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them. 21For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. 23All these evils come from inside and defile a person.” 24Jesus left that place and went to the vicinity of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know it; yet he could not keep his presence secret.

Mark 7:22 word by word

μοιχεῖαι, πλεονεξίαι, πονηρίαι, δόλος, ἀσέλγεια, ὀφθαλμὸς πονηρός, βλασφημία, ὑπερηφανία, ἀφροσύνη·Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Theftsκλοπήklopē · theftG2829
• covetousnessπλεονεξίαpleonexia · greedinessG4124
• wickednessπονηρίαponēria · evilG4189
• deceitδόλοςdolos · deceitG1388
• lasciviousnessἀσέλγειαaselgeia · debaucheryG766
• anὀφθαλμόςophthalmos · eyeG3788
• evilπονηρόςponēros · evil/badG4190
• blasphemyβλασφημίαblasphēmia · blasphemyG988
• prideὑπερηφανίαhuperēphania · prideG5243
• foolishnessἀφροσύνηaphrosunē · foolishnessG877

Cross-references for Mark 7:22

• Deuteronomy 15:9Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought: “The seventh year, the year for canceling debts, is near,” so that you do not show ill will toward the needy among your fellow Israelites and give them nothing. They may then appeal to the Lord against you, and you will be found guilty of sin.
• Deuteronomy 28:54Even the most gentle and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on his own brother or the wife he loves or his surviving children,
• 1 Samuel 18:8Saul was very angry; this refrain displeased him greatly. “They have credited David with tens of thousands,” he thought, “but me with only thousands. What more can he get but the kingdom?”
• Proverbs 23:6Do not eat the food of a begrudging host, do not crave his delicacies;
• Proverbs 28:22The stingy are eager to get rich and are unaware that poverty awaits them.
• Matthew 20:15Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
• 2 Chronicles 32:25But Hezekiah’s heart was proud and he did not respond to the kindness shown him; therefore the Lord’s wrath was on him and on Judah and Jerusalem.
• Psalms 10:4In his pride the wicked man does not seek him; in all his thoughts there is no room for God.
• Obadiah 1:3The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rocks and make your home on the heights, you who say to yourself, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’
• 2 Corinthians 10:5We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
• 1 Peter 5:5In the same way, you who are younger, submit yourselves to your elders. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.”
• Proverbs 12:23The prudent keep their knowledge to themselves, but a fool’s heart blurts out folly.
• Proverbs 22:15Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far away.
• Proverbs 24:9The schemes of folly are sin, and people detest a mocker.
• Proverbs 27:22Though you grind a fool in a mortar, grinding them like grain with a pestle, you will not remove their folly from them.
• Ecclesiastes 7:25So I turned my mind to understand, to investigate and to search out wisdom and the scheme of things and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the madness of folly.

Commentaries on Mark 7:22

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1-23Verses 1-23 See this passage explained in the notes at Mark 7:1 Came from Jerusalem - Probably to observe his conduct, and to find matter of accusation against him. Mark 7:2 Defiled hands - The hands were considered defiled or polluted unless they were washed previous to every meal. Mark 7:3 Except they wash their hands oft - Our word “oft” means frequently, often. The Greek wore translated oft has been rendered various ways. Some have said that it means…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 14-23Verses 14-23 Our wicked thoughts and affections, words and actions, defile us, and these only. As a corrupt fountain sends forth corrupt streams, so does a corrupt heart send forth corrupt reasonings, corrupt appetites and passions, and all the wicked words and actions that come from them. A spiritual understanding of the law of God, and a sense of the evil of sin, will cause a man to seek for the grace of the Holy Spirit, to keep down the evil thoughts…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 20-22These verses list 13 things that truly make a person unclean (morally impure). These actions and wrong desires come from the heart (a person’s inner thoughts and intentions).Read the comment

Topics related to Mark 7:22

• Blasphemy
• Commandments
• Covetousness
• Crime
• Deceit
• Depravity of Man
• Ecclesiasticism
• Jesus, the Christ
• Lasciviousness
• Sin
• Theft and Thieves

In the dictionaries

• Evil eye
• Abundance
• Covetousness
• Hold
• String
• Ablution
• Blasphemy
• Deceit
• Evil
• Fool; Folly

Commentaries on Mark 7

• 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