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Mark 7:18-20
Living Bible
Mark 7:18-20
Living Bible
18 “Don’t you understand either?” he asked. “Can’t you see that what you eat won’t harm your soul? 19 For food doesn’t come in contact with your heart, but only passes through the digestive system.” (By saying this he showed that every kind of food is kosher.)
20 And then he added, “It is the thought-life that pollutes.
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Mark 7:18-20
New International Version
Mark 7:18-20
New International Version
18 “Are you so dull?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them? 19 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(A) clean.)(B)
20 He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them.
Mark 7:18-20
New King James Version
Mark 7:18-20
New King James Version
18 So He said to them, (A)“Are you thus without understanding also? Do you not perceive that whatever enters a man from outside cannot defile him, 19 because it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and is eliminated, [a]thus purifying all foods?” 20 And He said, (B)“What comes out of a man, that defiles a man.
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- Mark 7:19 NU sets off the final phrase as Mark’s comment that Jesus has declared all foods clean.
Mark 7:18-20
English Standard Version
Mark 7:18-20
English Standard Version
18 And he said to them, “Then (A)are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him, 19 since it enters not his heart (B)but his stomach, and is expelled?”[a] ((C)Thus he declared all foods clean.) 20 And he said, (D)“What comes out of a person is what defiles him.
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- Mark 7:19 Greek goes out into the latrine
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