Popular Bible Verses from Mark 7

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Evil thoughts come out from people's minds. As a result they do wrong things. They have sex in wrong ways. They rob people. They murder people. They have sex with another man's wife. They are greedy. They are cruel to other people. They deceive people. They live like wild animals. They are jealous of other people. They say bad things about other people. They are proud and foolish. All these evil things begin inside people and then they come out. That is what makes them unclean.’

People do not become unclean because of things that go into their bodies from outside. They become unclean because of the things that come out from inside them.

Jesus said to them, ‘You are hypocrites! What God's prophet Isaiah wrote about you long ago is true: God says, “These people say good things about me, but they do not really want to obey me.

They say that I am great. But what they say has no purpose. They teach their own rules, which I did not give to them.” ’

Jesus then said, ‘You have stopped obeying God. Instead you obey the ideas that men teach.