Mark 7:18 "Are you so dull?" he asked. "Don't you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them?

◄ Mark 7:18 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
"Are you so dull?" he asked. "Don't you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them?

English Standard Version
And he said to them, “Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him,

New American Standard Bible
And He said to them, "Are you so lacking in understanding also? Do you not understand that whatever goes into the man from outside cannot defile him,

King James Bible
And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
And He said to them, "Are you also as lacking in understanding? Don't you realize that nothing going into a man from the outside can defile him?

International Standard Version
He asked them, "Are you so ignorant? Don't you know that nothing that goes into a person from the outside can make him unclean?

American Standard Version
And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Perceive ye not, that whatsoever from without goeth into the man, it cannot defile him;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he saith to them: So are you also without knowledge? understand you not that every thing from without, entering into a man cannot defile him:

Darby Bible Translation
And he says to them, Are ye also thus unintelligent? Do ye not perceive that all that is outside entering into the man cannot defile him,

Young's Literal Translation
and he saith to them, 'So also ye are without understanding! Do ye not perceive that nothing from without entering into the man is able to defile him?

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.