Mark 7:14-23 Part 1 of 2

    And again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, "Listen to me, everyone, and understand this. Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them."

    After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable.

    "Are you so dull?" he asked. "Don't you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside defiles them? For it doesn't go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body." (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.)

    He went on: "What comes out of a person is what defiles them. For it is from within, out of a person's heart, that evil thoughts come--sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and defile a person." 

 

And again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, "Listen to me, everyone, and understand this. Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them." After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable.

Mark 9:28-29  

    After Jesus had gone indoors, his disciples asked him privately, "Why couldn't we drive it out?"

    He replied, "This kind can come out only by prayer."  

    [see Mark 9:14-29]

 

"Are you so dull?" he asked. "Don't you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside defiles them? For it doesn't go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body." (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.) 

Romans 14:1-3  

    Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters. One person's faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them.  [see all Romans 14]

Acts 10:14-15  

    "Surely not, Lord!" Peter replied. "I have never eaten anything impure or unclean."

    The voice spoke to him a second time, "Do not call anything impure that God has made clean."  [see all Acts 10}  

 

[brackets are mine]

 

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