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Mark 7:10-23 Jesus Teaches About True Defilement

10 For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’

11 But you say that if a man says to his father or mother: ‘Whatever help you might otherwise have received from me is Corban’ (that is, a gift devoted to God),

12 then you no longer let him do anything for his father or mother.

13 Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that.”

14 Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen to me, everyone, and understand this.

15 Nothing outside a man can make him ‘unclean’ by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a man that makes him ‘unclean.’”

17 After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable.

18 “Are you so dull?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a man from the outside can make him ‘unclean’?

19 For it doesn’t go into his heart but into his stomach, and then out of his body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods “clean.”)

20 He went on: “What comes out of a man is what makes him ‘unclean.’

21 For from within, out of men’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,

22 greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly.

23 All these evils come from inside and make a man ‘unclean.’”

Cross References for Mark 7:10-23

Proverbs 30:17 - “The eye that mocks a father, that scorns obedience to a mother, will be pecked out by the rave... Click to read the verse Proverbs 30:17 Click to read the verse Proverbs 30:17

Exodus 20:12 - “Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is ... Click to read the verse Exodus 20:12 Click to read the verse Exodus 20:12

Deuteronomy 27:16 - “Cursed is the man who dishonors his father or his mother.” Then all the people shall say, “Amen!” Click to read the verse Deuteronomy 27:16 Click to read the verse Deuteronomy 27:16

2 Samuel 18:9 - Now Absalom happened to meet David’s men. He was riding his mule, and as the mule went under th... Click to read the verse 2 Samuel 18:9 Click to read the verse 2 Samuel 18:9

Proverbs 23:22 - Listen to your father, who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old. Click to read the verse Proverbs 23:22 Click to read the verse Proverbs 23:22

Proverbs 20:20 - If a man curses his father or mother, his lamp will be snuffed out in pitch darkness. Click to read the verse Proverbs 20:20 Click to read the verse Proverbs 20:20

Mark 10:19 - You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give fa... Click to read the verse Mark 10:19 Click to read the verse Mark 10:19

Malachi 1:6 - “A son honors his father, and a slave his master. If I am a father, where is the honor due me? ... Click to read the verse Malachi 1:6 Click to read the verse Malachi 1:6

Deuteronomy 5:16 - “Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may liv... Click to read the verse Deuteronomy 5:16 Click to read the verse Deuteronomy 5:16

Exodus 21:17 - “Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death. Click to read the verse Exodus 21:17 Click to read the verse Exodus 21:17

Ezekiel 22:7 - In you they have treated father and mother with contempt; in you they have oppressed the alien ... Click to read the verse Ezekiel 22:7 Click to read the verse Ezekiel 22:7

Leviticus 20:9 - “‘If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death. He has cursed his father or h... Click to read the verse Leviticus 20:9 Click to read the verse Leviticus 20:9

Matthew 15:4 - For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must b... Click to read the verse Matthew 15:4 Click to read the verse Matthew 15:4