Mark 7:23
All these evil things come from within and defile the man.”
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Mark 7:21
For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,
Matthew 15:18
But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man.
Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
Matthew 15:20
These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn’t defile the man.”
James 3:6
And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.
Proverbs 4:23
Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.
Jeremiah 4:14
Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?
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Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?
Genesis 6:5
Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.
Genesis 8:21
Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.
Job 14:4
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
Job 15:16
how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
Psalms 51:5
Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.
Romans 1:29
being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,
Ephesians 2:3
We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
Titus 3:3
For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
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James 1:15
Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin. The sin, when it is full grown, produces death.
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James 1:14
But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.
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