Mark 7:15 Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them."

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them."

English Standard Version
There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.”

New American Standard Bible
there is nothing outside the man which can defile him if it goes into him; but the things which proceed out of the man are what defile the man.

King James Bible
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Nothing that goes into a person from outside can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.

International Standard Version
Nothing that goes into a person from the outside can make him unclean. It's what comes out of a person that makes a person unclean.

American Standard Version
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Darby Bible Translation
There is nothing from outside a man entering into him which can defile him; but the things which go out from him, those it is which defile the man.

Young's Literal Translation
there is nothing from without the man entering into him that is able to defile him, but the things coming out from him, those are the things defiling the man.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

7:14-23 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 and affections that work within.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

CHAPTER 7

Mr 7:1-23. Discourse on Ceremonial Pollution. ( = Mt 15:1-20).

See on [1450]Mt 15:1-20.