He said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man.
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He said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man.
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And he sayde: that defileth a man which cometh oute of a man.
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Then he sayd, That which commeth out of man, that defileth man.
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- James 3:6 And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.
- James 1:14-15 But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed. Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin. The sin, when it is full grown, produces death.
- James 4:1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
- Mark 7:15 There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.
- Matthew 12:34-37 You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. The good man out of his good treasure brings out good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings out evil things. I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”
- Psalms 41:6 If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.
- Micah 2:1 Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
- Hebrews 7:6 but he whose genealogy is not counted from them has accepted tithes from Abraham, and has blessed him who has the promises.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 20 And he said, That which cometh out of…
20 And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
Ver. 20. That defileth the man] Far worse than any out-house. Sin is the devil’s excrement.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain For from within, out of the heart of man,....…
For from within, out of the heart of man,.... The inside of man is very bad, his inward part is not only wicked, but wickedness itself, yea, very wickedness, Psa 5:9, in him dwells no good thing naturally, his heart is wicked, and desperately so; it is full of evil; and out of the abundance of it, proceed the evil things hereafter mentioned; all its powers and faculties are vitiated, there is no place clean; the understanding and judgment are dreadfully corrupted; the mind and conscience are defiled; the affections are inordinate; not only the thought, but every imagination of the thought of the heart is evil, and that continually: what good thing therefore, can come out of such a Nazareth as this? Nothing, but what follows: for from hence
proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders; which several things are related in Mat_. 15:19 see the note on Mat 15:19; only the order here is a little different; "murders", which are here mentioned last, are there put after "evil thoughts".
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Vers. 20-23. From within, out of the heart of…
Vers. 20-23. From within, out of the heart of men; that is, from the reason and the will, of which the heart is the symbol and the labouratory. For the heart ministers the vital fore to the intellect to enable it to understand, and to the will to enable it to live, although the seat of the intellect is in the brain. St. Mark"s enumeration of evil things is in a somewhat different order from that of St. Matthew; and he adds to St. Matthew"s list (afrosunh ), foolishness, showing how all evil terminates in the loss of all moral and intellectual illumination. All these evil things proceed from within: and defile the man. Dr. Morison, in his admirable commentary on St. Mark, well observes here that "these things have an inward origin, and are vomited forth from the crater of the heart or soul;" and further on he says, "In a little sphere of things, and as regards acts, though not as regards substances or essences, men may be spoken of as creators. Men, that is to say, are the efficient causes of their own choices. If they were not, they would not be really free. If it was not so, there would be no real responsibility." St. Matthew (Mat_15:20) adds here, "But to eat with unwashen hands defileth not the man." This is the end and scope of the parable, which is to show that unwashen hands and unclean meats defile not a man, but only an impure and depraved will. It seems almost needless to observe that our Lord does not condemn the washing of the hands before meats as a thing in itself in any way wrong. All nations approve of ablutions as tending to cleanliness and health. "Dant famuli manibus lymphas, Cereremque canistris Expediunt, tousisque ferunt mantelia villis. (Virgil, "Aeneid," 1:701, 702.)
"It was thought sordid and mean to sit down to meals with unwashen hands. Whence not the clergy only, but the people, washed their hands before prayer." The moral of all is this, how carefully is the heart to be guarded, instructed, and adorned, seeing that it is the instrument and labouratory of all evil and all good, of all vice and all virtue! "Keep thy heart with all diligent," so that nothing may enter therein and nothing go out therefore and you not be conscious of it, and your reason may not approve; "for out of it are the issues of life."
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 He said
He said
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It is that which comes out of the person that defiles him
"What defiles a person is what comes out of him"
sensuality
not controlling one's lustful desires
come from within
Here the word "within" describes a person's heart. AT: "come from within a person's heart" or "come from within a person's thoughts" (See: Ellipsis)
out of the heart, proceed evil thoughts
Here "heart" is a metonym for a person's inner being or mind. AT: "out of the inner being, come evil thoughts" or "out of the mind, come evil thoughts" (See: Metonymy)
translationWords
defile
heart
evil
sexual immorality
adultery
envy
deceive
slander
proud
fool
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 7:20-22 These verses summarize thirteen things that truly defile…
7:20-22 These verses summarize thirteen things that truly defile a person. These actions and vices all come from the heart.
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