Mark 7:15

Overview - Mark 7
The Pharisees find fault with the disciples for eating with unwashed hands.
They break the commandment of God by the traditions of men.
14 Meat defiles not the man.
24 He heals the Syrophenician woman's daughter of an unclean spirit;
31 and one that was deaf, and stammered in his speech.
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Mark 7:15  (King James Version)
There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.
 


There
Though it is very true, says Dr. Doddridge, that a man may bring guilt upon himself by eating to excess, and a Jew, by eating what was forbidden by the Mosaic law; yet still the pollution would arise from the wickedness of the heart, and be just proportionable to it, which is all our Lord asserts.

nothing
18-20 ; Leviticus 11:42-47 ; Acts 10:14-16 Acts 10:28 ; 11:8-10 Acts 15:20 Acts 15:21 Romans 14:17
1 Corinthians 10:25 ; 1 Timothy 4:3-5 ; Titus 1:15 ; Hebrews 9:10 ; 13:9

but
20-23 ; Proverbs 4:23 ; Matthew 12:34 ; 15:16