Mark 7:21

For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

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WEBBE

For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

BSB

For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,

KJV

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

ASV

For from within, out of the heart of men, evil thoughts proceed, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,

BBE

Because from inside, from the heart of men, come evil thoughts and unclean pleasures,

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ἔσωθεν esōthen Within G2081 γὰρ gar for G1063 ἐκ ek from G1537 τῆς tēs the G3588 καρδίας kardias heart G2588 τῶν tōn (the) G3588 ἀνθρώπων anthrōpōn of men G444 οἱ hoi (the) G3588 διαλογισμοὶ dialogismoi thoughts G1261 οἱ hoi (the) G3588 κακοὶ kakoi evil G2556 ἐκπορεύονται ekporeuontai go forth G1607 πορνεῖαι porneiai sexual immorality G4202 κλοπαί klopai thefts G2829 φόνοι phonoi murders G5408

The early church

(ubi sup.) From this passage are condemned those men who suppose that thoughts are put into them by the devil, and do not arise from their own evil will. The devil may excite and help on evil thoughts, he cannot be their author.
Bede · d. 735Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
An evil eye, that is, hatred and flattery, for he who hates turns an evil and envious eye on him whom he hates, and a flatterer, looking askance at his neighbour's goods, leads him into evil; blasphemies, that is, faults committed against God; pride, that is, contempt of God, when a man ascribes the good, which he does, not to God, but to his own virtue; foolishness, that is, an injury against one's neighbour.
Theophylact of Ohrid · d. 1107Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
(non in Gloss. sed v. de Lyra in loc.) From evil thoughts, however, evil actions proceed to greater lengths, concerning which it is added, adulteries, that is, acts which consist in the violation of another man's bed; fornications, which are unlawful connections between persons, not bound by marriage; murders, by which hurt is inflicted on the person of one's neighbour; thefts, by which his goods are taken from him; covetousness, by which things are unjustly kept; wickedness, which consists in calumniating others; deceit, in overreaching them; lasciviousness, to which belongs any corruption of mind or body.
Glossa Ordinaria · d. 1274Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
(non occ.) The meaning of which He points out, when He subjoins, for from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts. And thus it appears that evil thoughts belong to the mind, which is here called the heart, and according to which a man is called good or bad, clean or unclean.
Glossa Ordinaria · d. 1274Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 14–23

Our wicked thoughts and affections, words and actions, defile us, and these only. As a corrupt fountain sends forth corrupt streams, so does a corrupt heart send forth corrupt reasonings, corrupt appetites and passions, and all the wicked words and actions that come from them. A spiritual understanding of the law of God, and a sense of the evil of sin, will cause a man to seek for the grace of the Holy Spirit, to keep down the evil thoughts and affections that work within.

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Topics

SinHeartPrideAdulteryHomicideBlasphemyCovetousnessDepravity Of ManTheft And ThievesLasciviousnessCrime

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.