Luke 11:40
You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside make the inside also?
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Luke 11:40
You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside make the inside also?
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Genesis 1:26
God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
Romans 6:6
knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.
Romans 7:22
For I delight in God’s law after the inward person,
2 Corinthians 4:16
Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward person is decaying, yet our inward person is renewed day by day.
2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
Ephesians 4:22
that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,
Ephesians 4:23
and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
Ephesians 4:24
and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.
Colossians 3:3
For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
Colossians 3:9
Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,
Colossians 3:10
and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,
1 Peter 3:3
Let your beauty come not from the outward adorning of braiding your hair, and of wearing gold ornaments or of putting on fine clothing,
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Genesis 2:7
Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Numbers 16:22
They fell on their faces, and said, “God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”
Psalms 33:15
he who fashions all of their hearts; and he considers all of their works.
Zechariah 12:1
A revelation of Yahweh’s word concerning Israel: Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:
Hebrews 12:9
Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?
James 4:14
Yet you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
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Genesis 4:10
Yahweh said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.
Genesis 4:11
Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
Numbers 35:32
“ ‘You shall take no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land before the death of the priest.
Numbers 35:33
“ ‘So you shall not pollute the land where you live; for blood pollutes the land. No atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.
Job 16:18
“Earth, don’t cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest.
Isaiah 26:21
For, behold, Yahweh comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will disclose her blood, and will no longer cover her slain.
Ezekiel 24:7
“ ‘ “For the blood she shed is in the middle of her. She set it on the bare rock. She didn’t pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust.
Ezekiel 24:8
That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance, I have set her blood on the bare rock, that it should not be covered.”
Revelation 6:9
When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had.
Revelation 6:10
They cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”
Revelation 6:11
A long white robe was given to each of them. They were told that they should rest yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their brothers, who would also be killed even as they were, should complete their course.
Revelation 16:6
For they poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this.”
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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.
Psalms 66:18
If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.
Proverbs 13:19
Longing fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but fools detest turning from evil.
Isaiah 55:7
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.
Jeremiah 4:14
Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?
Zechariah 8:17
and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath; for all these are things that I hate,” says Yahweh.
Matthew 15:18
But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man.
Mark 7:21
For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,
Mark 7:23
All these evil things come from within and defile the man.”
Acts 8:21
You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart isn’t right before God.
Acts 8:22
Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.
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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Deuteronomy 21:12
then you shall bring her home to your house. She shall shave her head and trim her nails.
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Judges 17:5
The man Micah had a house of gods, and he made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
Judges 17:13
Then Micah said, “Now I know that Yahweh will do good to me, since I have a Levite as my priest.”
1 Samuel 15:13
Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, “You are blessed by Yahweh! I have performed the commandment of Yahweh.”
1 Samuel 15:14
Samuel said, “Then what does this bleating of the sheep in my ears and the lowing of the cattle which I hear mean?”
Job 33:9
‘I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.
Psalms 36:2
For he flatters himself in his own eyes, too much to detect and hate his sin.
Proverbs 21:2
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.
Proverbs 30:12
There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.
Isaiah 65:5
who say, ‘Stay by yourself, don’t come near to me, for I am holier than you.’ These are smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all day.
Jeremiah 2:22
For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me,” says the Lord Yahweh.
Luke 16:15
He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
1 John 1:8
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
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2 Samuel 19:24
Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; and he had neither groomed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came home in peace.
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Psalms 75:4
I said to the arrogant, “Don’t boast!” I said to the wicked, “Don’t lift up the horn.
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Psalms 75:5
Don’t lift up your horn on high. Don’t speak with a stiff neck.”
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Psalms 94:8
Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?
Psalms 94:9
He who implanted the ear, won’t he hear? He who formed the eye, won’t he see?
Proverbs 1:22
“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?
Proverbs 8:5
You simple, understand prudence! You fools, be of an understanding heart!
Jeremiah 5:21
‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:
Luke 24:25
He said to them, “Foolish people, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!
Galatians 3:1
Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?
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Proverbs 15:2
The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools gush out folly.
Proverbs 15:14
The heart of one who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.
Hosea 9:7
The days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool, and the man who is inspired to be insane, because of the abundance of your sins, and because your hostility is great.
Matthew 15:14
Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”
Matthew 23:16
“Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.’
Matthew 23:18
And, ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is obligated?’
Matthew 23:20
He therefore who swears by the altar, swears by it and by everything on it.
Matthew 23:21
He who swears by the temple, swears by it and by him who has been living in it.
Matthew 23:22
He who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God and by him who sits on it.
Matthew 23:23
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.
Matthew 23:24
You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!
1 Timothy 6:4
he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,
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Isaiah 6:10
Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.”
Isaiah 6:11
Then I said, “Lord, how long?” He answered, “Until cities are waste without inhabitant, houses without man, the land becomes utterly waste,
Isaiah 6:12
and Yahweh has removed men far away, and the forsaken places are many within the land.
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1 Samuel 16:7
But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”
Jeremiah 2:23
“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled. I have not gone after the Baals’? See your way in the valley. Know what you have done. You are a swift dromedary traversing her ways,
Jeremiah 2:24
a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that sniffs the wind in her craving. When she is in heat, who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not weary themselves. In her month, they will find her.
Jeremiah 2:35
“Yet you said, ‘I am innocent. Surely his anger has turned away from me.’ “Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’
Matthew 7:15
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.
Luke 16:14
The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.
Luke 18:11
The Pharisee stood and prayed by himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men: extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
2 Timothy 3:5
holding a form of godliness but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.
2 Timothy 3:9
But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be.
Titus 1:16
They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.
1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 John 1:10
If we say that we haven’t sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
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Jeremiah 2:26
As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so the house of Israel is ashamed— they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets,
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Jeremiah 2:27
who tell wood, ‘You are my father,’ and a stone, ‘You have given birth to me,’ for they have turned their back to me, and not their face, but in the time of their trouble they will say, ‘Arise, and save us!’
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Matthew 15:2
“Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat bread.”
Mark 7:3
(For the Pharisees and all the Jews don’t eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders.
Mark 7:5
The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why don’t your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?”
Mark 7:7
They worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’
Mark 7:8
“For you set aside the commandment of God, and hold tightly to the tradition of men—the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other such things.”
Mark 7:9
He said to them, “Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.
Mark 7:10
For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother;’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’
Mark 7:11
But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban,” ’ ” that is to say, given to God,
Mark 7:12
“then you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother,
Mark 7:13
making void the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down. You do many things like this.”
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Luke 11:36
If therefore your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its bright shining gives you light.”
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Judges 16:15
She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies.”
2 Samuel 13:26
Then Absalom said, “If not, please let my brother Amnon go with us.” The king said to him, “Why should he go with you?”
2 Samuel 13:27
But Absalom pressed him, and he let Amnon and all the king’s sons go with him.
2 Samuel 13:28
Absalom commanded his servants, saying, “Mark now, when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine; and when I tell you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Haven’t I commanded you? Be courageous, and be valiant!”
Psalms 12:2
Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.
Psalms 55:21
His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.
Proverbs 23:7
for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.
Daniel 11:27
As for both these kings, their hearts will be to do evil, and they will speak lies at one table; but it won’t prosper, for the end will still be at the appointed time.
Luke 11:45
One of the lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying this you insult us also.”
Luke 11:46
He said, “Woe to you lawyers also! For you load men with burdens that are difficult to carry, and you yourselves won’t even lift one finger to help carry those burdens.
Luke 11:47
Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
Luke 11:48
So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For they killed them, and you build their tombs.
Luke 11:49
Therefore also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute,
Luke 11:50
that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation,
Luke 11:51
from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.’ Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation.
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Luke 11:52
Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered.”
Luke 11:54
lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.
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Luke 11:4
Forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’ ”
1 Corinthians 4:10
We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.
2 Corinthians 12:11
I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.
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Luke 7:30
But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves.
John 1:24
The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees.
John 3:1
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
John 3:2
He came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”
John 7:47
The Pharisees therefore answered them, “You aren’t also led astray, are you?
John 7:48
Have any of the rulers or any of the Pharisees believed in him?
John 7:49
But this multitude that doesn’t know the law is cursed.”
Acts 23:8
For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess all of these.
Acts 26:5
having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
1 Corinthians 1:20
Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
Philippians 3:5
circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;
Philippians 3:6
concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.
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Acts 10:14
But Peter said, “Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.”
Acts 11:8
But I said, ‘Not so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.’
Acts 11:9
But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, ‘What God has cleansed, don’t you call unclean.’
Romans 14:17
for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians 6:12
“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything.
1 Corinthians 6:13
“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
1 Corinthians 10:23
“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up.
1 Corinthians 10:25
Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience,
1 Corinthians 10:31
Whether therefore you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
1 Timothy 4:3
forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
1 Timothy 4:5
For it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.
Hebrews 13:9
Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by foods, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.
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Amos 5:15
Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
Mark 7:20
He said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man.
2 Timothy 2:19
However, God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal: “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”
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Psalms 51:7
Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
Psalms 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.
Jeremiah 4:11
At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A hot wind blows from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse.
Ezekiel 36:25
I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols.
Ezekiel 36:26
I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
Ezekiel 36:27
I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them.
Acts 15:9
He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.
2 Corinthians 7:1
Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
1 Peter 1:22
Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,
1 John 3:3
Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
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Revelation 18:24
In her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been slain on the earth.”
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