Mark 7:15 Cross References - WPNT

¹⁵ There is nothing outside a man that can defile him by going into him; rather, the things that come out of him, those are the ones that defile him.

³⁴ Brood of vipers! How can you, being malignant, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

¹⁶ So Jesus said: “Are you also still without understanding?

¹⁸ So He said to them: “Can you really be without understanding? Don’t you perceive that nothing that enters a man from outside can defile him, ¹⁹ because it doesn’t go into his heart, but into his stomach, which then expels the impure aspects of the food?” ²⁰ He went on to say: “That which comes out of a man, that is what defiles him. ²¹ Because from within, out of men’s hearts, the evil designs proceed—adulteries, fornications, murders, ²² thefts, covetings, malignancies; deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, arrogance, foolishness— ²³ all these malignant things proceed from within and defile the man.”

¹⁴ But Peter said, “No way, Lord! Never have I eaten anything ‘common’ or unclean!” ¹⁵ So the voice came to him a second time, “What (pl.) God has made clean you must not call ‘common’.” ¹⁶ Well this happened three times, and then the object was taken back up into the sky.

²⁸ Then he said to them: “You know how it is unlawful for a Jewish man to associate with or to approach a different race; but God has shown me that I should not call any man ‘common’ or unclean.

⁸ So I said, ‘No way, Lord! Never has anything common or unclean entered my mouth!’ ⁹ But the voice answered me, a second time, from heaven, ‘Things that God has made clean you must not call “common”.’ ¹⁰ Well this was done three times, and it was all pulled back up into the sky.

²⁰ but that we write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from fornication, from what is strangled, and from blood. ²¹ For from ancient generations Moses has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”

¹⁷ because the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

²⁵ Eat whatever is being sold in the meat market, asking no question for the sake of conscience;

³ who forbid to marry and to eat foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and really know the truth. ⁴ For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, ⁵ because it is consecrated through the word of God and prayer.

¹⁵ To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; in fact, both their minds and their consciences are defiled.

¹⁰ they were only about foods and drinks and various ceremonial washings and physical regulations, things imposed until the time of restructuring.

⁹ Do not be carried away by various and strange teachings, because it is good that the heart be established by grace, not foods, by which those who were so occupied were not benefited.