⚡WEB · Mark 7:22
What does Mark 7:22 mean?
"covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness."
— Mark 7:22 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
because it doesn’t go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, thus purifying all foods?”
He said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man.
For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,
covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.
All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.”
From there he arose, and went away into the borders of Tyre and Sidon. He entered into a house, and didn’t want anyone to know it, but he couldn’t escape notice.
For a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard of him, came and fell down at his feet.
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