- Bible
- Matthew
- Chapter 15
- Verse 19
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
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Gill's Exposition
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…
See also Mar 7:17-23. Then answered Peter, and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable - See the notes at Mat 13:3. The word “parable” sometimes means a dark or obscure saying, Psa 78:2. Peter…
Christ having proved that the disciples, in eating with unwashen hands, were not to be blamed, as transgressing the traditions and injunctions of the elders, comes here to show that they were not to…
Cambridge Bible
For out of the heart proceed The enumeration follows the order of the Commandments. Evil thoughts harmful reasonings form a class under which the rest fall, indicating, too, that the transgression of…
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