covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.
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covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.
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theeft coveteousnes wickednes diceyte vnclennes and a wicked eye blasphemy pryde folysshnes:
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Theftes, couetousnes, wickednes, deceite, vncleannes, a wicked eye, backbiting, pride, foolishnesse.
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Passages linked to Mark 7:22 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Matthew 20:15 Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’
- Ecclesiastes 7:25 I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.
- Obadiah 1:3-4 The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’ Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.
- Matthew 6:23 But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
- 2 Corinthians 10:5 throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,
- 1 Peter 2:15 For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
- 1 Peter 5:5 Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
- Deuteronomy 15:9 Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,” and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.
- Deuteronomy 28:54 The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye will be evil toward his brother, toward the wife whom he loves, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining,
- Deuteronomy 28:56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye will be evil toward the husband that she loves, toward her son, toward her daughter,
- 1 Samuel 18:8-9 Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him. He said, “They have creditd David with ten thousands, and they have only credited me with thousands. What can he have more but the kingdom?” Saul watched David from that day and forward.
- 2 Chronicles 32:25-26 But Hezekiah didn’t reciprocate appropriate to the benefit done for him, because his heart was lifted up. Therefore there was wrath on him, and on Judah and Jerusalem. Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that Yahweh’s wrath didn’t come on them in the days of Hezekiah.
- 2 Chronicles 32:31 However concerning the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.
- Psalms 10:4 The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.
- Proverbs 12:23 A prudent man keeps his knowledge, but the hearts of fools proclaim foolishness.
- Proverbs 22:15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
- Proverbs 23:6 Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies:
- Proverbs 24:9 The schemes of folly are sin. The mocker is detested by men.
- Proverbs 27:22 Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.
- Proverbs 28:22 A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn’t know that poverty waits for him.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain All kind of craftiness whereby men profit themselves by…
All kind of craftiness whereby men profit themselves by other men’s losses.
Cankered malice.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye,…
22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
Ver. 22. An evil eye] Envious, and rejoicing at the miseries of others, which is the property of Edomites, abjects, witches, and devils. Those that are bewitched are said to be overlooked, sc. with an evil and malicious eye. Nescio quis teneros, &c. βασκαινω, fascino, i. q. φαεσι, καινω.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain All these evil things come from within,.... All evil…
All these evil things come from within,.... All evil thoughts, words, and actions, take their rise from the inward parts of man; from his heart; which is sadly corrupted, and is the fountain from whence all these impure streams flow. And if these come from within, then not from without; they are not by imitation or are the mere effects of example in others: example may indeed, and often does, draw out the evil that is within; but it does not produce it there; if it was not there before, it could not draw it out from thence: and if all these evils come from within, then the inward part of man must be sinful and polluted, previous to the commission of these evil things; and from whence springs then that inward pollution? It is the fruit of original sin, of Adam's transgression; the consequence of which is, a corrupt nature, which is derived to all his posterity: for his nature being corrupted by sinning, and he having all human nature in him, the individuals of it could not be propagated by ordinary generation, without the pollution of sin cleaving to them; "who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one", Job 14:4. Nor has there ever been any instance to the contrary, but the man Christ Jesus; whose human nature was holy, it not descending from Adam by ordinary generation; otherwise, all men, as David was, are "shapen in iniquity, and conceived in sin", Psa 51:5, and this is the source and spring of all sinful action, internal and external.
And defile the man; both soul and body; all the powers and faculties of the soul, and all the members of the body; or "make a man common": these show him to be one of the common people, a very sinful man; as such were reckoned, and therefore are called emphatically, "sinners": and are joined with "publicans", who were esteemed the worst of sinners: from all which it appears, that sin in thought, word, and deed, is the defiling thing, and is what ought to be carefully avoided; and not meats, and the manner of eating them, provided moderation is used.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Wickedness - The word means ill natured, cruelty, inhumanity,…
Wickedness - The word means ill natured, cruelty, inhumanity, and all malevolent affections. Foolishness - Directly contrary to sobriety of thought and discourse: all kind of wild imaginations and extravagant passions.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 22. An evil eye — An envious eye.
22. An evil eye — An envious eye.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 22. covetousness] “avarices,” Wyclif. The original word denotes more…
22. covetousness] “avarices,” Wyclif. The original word denotes more than the mere love of money, it is “the drawing and snatching to himself, on the sinner’s part, of the creature in every form and kind, as it lies out of and beyond himself.” Hence we find it joined not only with “thefts” here and with “extortion” in 1Co_5:10, but also with sins of the flesh as in 1Co_5:11; Eph_5:3; Eph_5:5; Col_3:5. “Impurity and covetousness may be said to divide between them nearly the whole domain of human selfishness and vice.” “Homo extra Deum quaerit pabulum in creatura materiali vel per voluptatem vel per avaritiam.” See Canon Lightfoot on Col_3:5
wickedness] or wickednesses The word thus translated occurs in the singular in Mat_22:18, “but Jesus perceived their wickedness,” and again in Luk_11:39; Rom_1:29; 1Co_5:8; Eph_6:12. In the plural it only occurs twice, here and in Act_3:26, where we have translated it “iniquities.” It denotes the active working of evil, “the cupiditas nocendi,” or as Jeremy Taylor explains it, an “aptness to do shrewd turns, to delight in mischief and trajedies; a love to trouble our neighbour and to do him ill offices; crossness, perverseness, and peevishness of action in our intercourse.” Trench’s N. T. Synonyms, p. 36.
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lasciviousness] The word thus rendered is of uncertain etymology, and in our Version is translated generally “lasciviousness,” as here and 2Co_12:21; Gal_5:19; Eph_4:19; 1Pe_4:3; sometimes (2) “wantonness,” as in Rom_13:13; 2Pe_2:18. The Vulgate renders it now “impudicitia,” now “lascivia.” “Wantonness” is the better rendering. In Classical Greek it signifies “lawless insolence” or “boisterous violence” towards another; in later Greek “sensuality.”
an evil eye, blasphemy] Of these the first denotes concealed, the second open enmity. The evil eye is notorious in the East; here it is the description of an envious look; “invidia et de malis alienis gaudium.” Bengel.
pride] The substantive thus translated only occurs here in the N. T., its adjective occurs in Luk_1:51, “He hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts;” Rom_1:30, “proud, boasters;” 2Ti_3:2, “proud, blasphemers;” Jas_4:6, 1Pe_5:5, “God resisteth the proud,” The true seat of this sin, the German “Hochmuch,” is within, and consists in comparing oneself secretly with others, and lifting oneself above others, in being proud in thought. foolishness] only occurs here in the Gospels, and three times in the Epistles of St Paul, 2Co_11:1; 2Co_11:17; 2Co_11:21. “Causa cur insipientia extremo loco ponatur: quae etiam reliqua omnia facit incurabiliora. Non in sola voluntate est corruptio humana.” Bengel.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (22) Covetousness, wickedness.—The Greek words for these are, like…
(22) Covetousness, wickedness.—The Greek words for these are, like the preceding, in the plural, as pointing to the manifold forms in which the sins show themselves.
An evil eye.—As explained by Mat_20:15 (where see Note), the “evil eye” is that which looks askance on the good of others—i.e., envy in its most malignant form.
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Pride.—Better, perhaps, haughtiness. This is the only passage in the New Testament where the word so translated occurs. The cognate adjective meets us in Rom_1:30; 2Ti_3:2.
Foolishness.—This, again, is a rare word in the New Testament, meeting us only in 2Co_11:1; 2Co_11:17; 2Co_11:21. As interpreted by Pro_14:18; Pro_15:21, it is the folly which consists in the absence of the fear of God, the infatuation of impiety.
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