Mark 7:19-21

What Defiles a Person

¹⁹ since it enters not his heart _j but his stomach, and is expelled?" ₁ ( _k Thus he declared all foods clean.) ²⁰ And he said, _l "What comes out of a person is what defiles him. ²¹ For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, _m murder, adultery,

1. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 6:13
   Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food" - and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
   
2. Cross References
   Luke 11:41
   But give as alms those things that are within, and behold, everything is clean for you.
   Acts 10:15
   And the voice came to him again a second time, "What God has made clean, do not call common.
   Acts 11:9
   But the voice answered a second time from heaven, 'What God has made clean, do not call common.
   
3. Cross References
   Matthew 12:34
   You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
   James 3:6
   And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell.
   
4. Cross References
   Matthew 5:22
   But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, 'You fool!' will be liable to the hell of fire.
   Matthew 5:28
   But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
   Exodus 20:13 - 14
   You shall not murder.
   Exodus 20:17
   "You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's."