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Matthew 15:19
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For from the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies,
For out of the heart proceed euill thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnes, blasphemies.
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.
"For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, acts of adultery, other immoral sexual acts, thefts, false testimonies, and slanderous statements.
Out of the mind come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual sins, stealing, lying, and speaking evil of others.
"For out of the heart come evil thoughts and plans, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, slanders (verbal abuse, irreverent speech, blaspheming).
For out of the heart come euil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, slaunders.
"For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, slanders.
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false witness, slanders.
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.
Out of your heart come evil thoughts, murder, unfaithfulness in marriage, vulgar deeds, stealing, telling lies, and insulting others.
For out of the heart come forth wicked thoughts, murder, adultery and other kinds of sexual immorality, theft, lies, slanders. . . .
For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings, blasphemies;
All these bad things begin in the mind: evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual sins, stealing, lying, and insulting people.
For from the heart come out evil thoughts, such as fornication, murder, adultery, theft, false witness, blasphemy.
For from your heart come the evil ideas which lead you to kill, commit adultery, and do other immoral things; to rob, lie, and slander others.
For from the heart come evil plans, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, abusive speech.
For out of the heart come forth reasonings, evil things , murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, lies, blasphemies.
For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, railings:
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, the taking of life, broken faith between the married, unclean desires of the flesh, taking of property, false witness, bitter words:
For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
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For from the heart proceed evil thoughts, adultery, murder, fornication, robbery, false witness, blasphemy.
For, from the heart proceed evil thoughts, adultery, murder, whoredom, theft, false testimony, reviling.
For out of the heart, proceade euyll thoughtes, murders, adulteries, whordomes, theftes, false witnesse, blasphemyes.
For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, railings:
For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, railings.
For out of the heart proceed wicked thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, perjury, impiety of speech.
For of the herte goon out yuele thouytis, mansleyngis, auowtries, fornycaciouns, theftis, fals witnessyngis, blasfemyes.
For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, railings:
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.
For out of the heart come bad thoughts, killing other people, sex sins of a married person, sex sins of a person not married, stealing, lying, speaking against God.
For out of the heart come evil intentions, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander.
For, out of the heart, come forth wicked designs, - murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, profane speakings:
For from the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander.
For out of the herte come evyll thoughtis murder breakyng of wedlocke whordo theefte falce witnes berynge blasphemye.
for out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, whoredoms, thefts, false witnessings, evil speakings:
For out of ye hert come euell thoughtes murthur, breakynge of wedlocke, whordome theft, false witnesse, blasphemy.
out of the heart proceed evil designs, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimony, slanders.
Out of your heart comes the awful things like killing, cheatin' on your spouse, gross sexual excitement, horse thieving, goin' back on your word, and talkin' crap about other people.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
out: Genesis 6:5, Genesis 8:21, Proverbs 4:23, Proverbs 6:14, Proverbs 22:15, Proverbs 24:9, Jeremiah 17:9, Mark 7:21-23, Romans 3:10-19, Romans 7:18, Romans 8:7, Romans 8:8, Galatians 5:19-21, Ephesians 2:1-3, Titus 3:2-6
evil: Matthew 9:4, Psalms 119:113, Isaiah 55:7, Isaiah 59:7, Jeremiah 4:14, Acts 8:22, James 1:13-15
Reciprocal: Exodus 20:15 - General Leviticus 15:19 - and her issue Numbers 19:22 - the soul Deuteronomy 15:9 - Beware 1 Samuel 24:13 - Wickedness Psalms 14:1 - abominable Proverbs 6:19 - A false Proverbs 10:16 - the fruit Proverbs 12:17 - but Proverbs 15:26 - thoughts Ecclesiastes 7:22 - also Ecclesiastes 9:3 - also Isaiah 10:12 - punish the fruit of the stout heart Isaiah 32:6 - the vile Isaiah 65:2 - after Zechariah 8:17 - let Malachi 2:15 - take Matthew 5:37 - cometh Matthew 23:25 - for Matthew 23:28 - but Luke 11:39 - but Acts 8:20 - thou Acts 13:10 - O full Romans 7:5 - did work 2 Corinthians 10:5 - every thought Ephesians 5:3 - fornication Colossians 3:5 - fornication 1 Thessalonians 4:3 - that James 4:1 - come they Revelation 9:21 - nor of their fornication Revelation 13:6 - he opened
Cross-References
Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts,.... Of God, of Christ, of the Spirit, of fellow creatures, and of all sorts of wickedness. The thoughts of sin are evil, are to be hated, forsaken, and for which men are accountable to God. All wicked imaginations, carnal reasonings, lustful desires, and malicious contrivances, are here included; which take their rise from, and are devised, and forged, in the corrupt heart of man.
Murders; inveterate hatred of men's persons, malice prepense, schemes to take away life, all angry and wrathful words, and actual effusion of man's blood.
Adulteries; uncleanness committed between married persons, both in thought, and deed:
fornications; unlawful copulations of persons in a single state:
thefts; taking away from others by force or fraud, what is their right and property:
false witness: swearing falsely, or exhibiting a false testimony to the hurt of his neighbour, either his name, person, or estate:
blasphemies; evil speakings of God or men. To which Mark adds "covetousness"; a greedy and insatiable desire after the things of the world, or the neighbour's goods: "wickedness"; doing hurt and mischief to fellow creatures: "deceit"; in words and actions, in trade and conversation: "lasciviousness"; all manner of uncleanness, and unnatural lusts: "an evil eye"; of envy and covetousness: the vitiosity, or corruption of nature, is, by the Jews h, called עין
רע, "the evil eye": "pride"; in heart and life, in dress and gesture; and "foolishness"; expressed in talk and conduct.
h Tzeror Hammor, fol. 141. 3.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
See also Mark 7:17-23.
Then answered Peter, and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable - See the notes at Matthew 13:3. The word “parable” sometimes means a dark or obscure saying, Psalms 78:2. Peter meant, “Explain to us more fully this obscure and novel doctrine.” To us, now, it is plain; to the disciples, just coming out of Judaism, the doctrine of Jesus was obscure. Mark says that the disciples asked him. There is no contradiction. The question was put by Peter in the name of the disciples; or several of them put the question, though Matthew has mentioned only one. An omission is not a contradiction.
Matthew 15:16
Are ye also yet without understanding? - Jesus appeals, in explaining this, to their common sense; and he wonders that they had not yet learned to judge the foolish traditions of the Jews by the decisions of common sense and by his own instructions.
Matthew 15:17
Do ye not understand ... - The meaning of this may be thus expressed: The food which is eaten does not affect the mind, and therefore cannot pollute it.
The doctrine of the Pharisees, that neglect of washing and of similar observances defiles a man, cannot be true. Those things pertain to the body as much as food does, and they cannot affect the soul. That must be purified by something else than external washing, and it is polluted by other things than a neglect of mere outward ceremonies. The seat of corruption is within - it is the heart itself; and if people would be made pure, this must be cleansed. If that is corrupt, the whole man is corrupt.
Matthew 15:18-20
Christ proceeds to state what does defile the man, or render him a sinner:
1. “Evil thoughts” These are the first things - these are the fountains of all others. Thought precedes action. Thought, or purpose, or motive, gives its character to conduct. All evil thoughts are here intended. Though we labor to suppress them, yet they defile us. They leave pollution behind them.
2. “Murders.” Taking the life of others with malice. The malice has its seat in the heart, and the murder therefore proceeds from the heart, 1 John 3:15.
3. “Adulteries, fornication.” See Matthew 5:28.
4. “Thefts.” Theft is the taking and carrying away the goods of others without their knowledge or consent. Thefts are caused by coveting the property of others. They proceed, therefore, from the heart, and violate at the same time two commandments - the tenth commandment in thought and the eighth commandment in act.
5. “False witness.” Giving wrong testimony. Concealing the truth, or stating what we know to be false - a violation of the ninth commandment. It proceeds from a desire to injure others, to take away their character or property, or to do them injustice. It proceeds thus from the heart.
6. “Blasphemies.” See the notes at Matthew 9:3. Blasphemy proceeds from opposition to God, hatred of his character Romans 8:7, and from a desire that there should be no God. It proceeds from the heart. See Psalms 14:1. Mark adds several things to those enumerated by Matthew:
(a) “Covetousness.” The unlawful desire of what others possess, this always proceeds from the heart.
(b) “Wickedness.” The original here means malice, or a desire of injuring others, Romans 1:29.
(c) “Deceit,” i. e., fraud, concealment, cheating in trade. This proceeds from a desire to benefit ourselves by doing injustice to others, and this proceeds from the heart.
(d) Lasciviousness. Lust, obscenity, unbridled passion - a strong, evil desire of the heart.
(e) “An evil eye.” That is, an eye that is sour, malignant, proud; or an eye of lust and passion. See Matthew 5:28; Matthew 20:15; 2 Peter 2:14, “Having eyes full of adultery, that cannot cease from sin.”
(f) “Pride.” An improper estimate of our own importance; thinking that we are of much more consequence than we really are. This is always the work of an evil heart.
(g) “Foolishness.” Not a lack of intellect - man is not to blame for that - but a moral folly, consisting in choosing evil ends and the bad means of gaining them; or, in other words, sin and wickedness. All sin is folly. It is foolish for a man to disobey God, and foolish for anyone to go to hell.
Matthew 15:20
These are the things which defile a man - These are the true sources of pollution in man.
These are what corrupt and degrade. It is not the neglect of washing the body which defiles; it is the deep, inward corruption of the heart. And what a fountain of pollution is the human soul! What an array of crimes to proceed from the heart of man! What a proof of guilt! What strictness is there in the law of God! How universal is depravity!
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Matthew 15:19. Out of the heart — In the heart of an unregenerate man, the principles and seeds of all sin are found. And iniquity is always conceived in the heart before it be spoken or acted. Is there any hope that a man can abstain from outward sin till his heart, that abominable fountain of corruption, be thoroughly cleansed? I trow not.
Evil thoughts — διαλογισμοι πονηροι, wicked dialogues - for in all evil surmisings the heart holds a conversation, or dialogue, with itself. For φονοι, murders, two MSS. have φθονοι, envyings, and three others have both. Envy and murder are nearly allied: the former has often led to the latter.
Blasphemies — I have already observed, Matthew 9:3, that the verb βλασφημεω, when applied to men, signifies to speak INJURIOUSLY of their persons, characters, &c., and, when applied to God, it means to speak IMPIOUSLY of his nature, works, &c.
