Mark 7:21 Cross References - Twentieth_Century

²¹ For it is from within, out of the hearts of men, that there come evil thoughts--unchastity, theft, murder, adultery,

⁴ Knowing their thoughts, Jesus exclaimed: "Why do your cherish such wicked thoughts?

¹⁹ For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts--murder, adultery, unchastity, theft, perjury, slander.

²⁵ Alas for you, Teachers of the Law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are filled with the results of greed and self-indulgence. ²⁶ You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the dish, so that the outside may become clean as well. ²⁷ Alas for you, Teachers of the Law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You are like whitewashed tombs, which indeed look fair outside, while inside they are filled with dead men's bones and all kinds of filth. ²⁸ It is the same with you. Outwardly, and to others, you have the look of religious men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and sin.

¹⁵ "You," said Jesus, "are the men who justify themselves before the world, but God can read your hearts; and what is highly esteemed among men may be an abomination in the sight of God.

⁴ While it was unsold, was not it your own? and after it was sold, was not the money at your own disposal? How did you come to think of such a thing? You have lied, not to men, but to God!"

²² Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord, that, if possible, you may be forgiven for such a thought;

⁵ When we were living merely earthly lives, our sinful passions, aroused by the Law, were active in every part of our bodies, with the result that our lives bore fruit for Death.

⁸ But sin took advantage of the Commandment to arouse in me every form of covetousness, for where there is no consciousness of Law sin shows no sign of life.

⁷ Because to be earthly-minded is to be an enemy to God, for such a mind does not submit to the Law of God, nor indeed can it do so. ⁸ They who are earthly cannot please God.

¹⁹ The sins of our earthly nature are unmistakable. They are sins like these--unchastity, impurity, indecency, ²⁰ Idolatry, sorcery, quarrels, strife, jealousy, outbursts of passion, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, ²¹ Feelings of envy, drunkenness, revelry, and the like. And I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who indulge in such things will have no place in the Kingdom of God.

³ There was, you remember, a time when we ourselves were foolish, disobedient, misled, slaves to all kinds of passions and vices, living in a spirit of malice and envy, detested ourselves and hating one another.

¹⁴ A man is in every case tempted by his own passions--allured and enticed by them. ¹⁵ Then Passion conceives and gives birth to Sin, and Sin, on reaching maturity, brings forth Death.

⁴ Is not that to make distinctions among yourselves, and show yourselves prejudiced judges?

¹ What is the cause of the fighting and quarreling that goes on among you? Is not it to be found in the desires which are always at war within you? ² You crave, yet do not obtain. You murder and rage, yet cannot gain your end. You quarrel and fight. You do not obtain, because you do not ask. ³ You ask, yet do not receive, because you ask for a wrong purpose--to spend what you get upon your pleasures.

² and so will live the rest of his earthly life guided, not by human passions, but by the will of God. ³ Surely in the past you have spent time enough living as the Gentiles delight to live. For your path has lain among scenes of debauchery, licentiousness, drunkenness, revelry, hard-drinking, and profane idolatry.