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Mark 7:18
Mark 7:18 is verse 18 of Mark chapter 7, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
“Are you still so dull?” He asked. “Do you not understand? Nothing that enters a man from the outside can defile him,
King James Version
And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;
World English Bible
He said to them, “Are you also without understanding? Don’t you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can’t defile him,
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Mark 7:17–20 · Berean Standard Bible
17 After Jesus had left the crowd and gone into the house, His disciples inquired about the parable.
18 “Are you still so dull?” He asked. “Do you not understand? Nothing that enters a man from the outside can defile him,
19 because it does not enter his heart, but it goes into the stomach and then is eliminated.” (Thus all foods are clean.)
20 He continued: “What comes out of a man, that is what defiles him.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Mark 4:13Then Jesus said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? Then how will you understand any of the parables?
Isaiah 28:9Whom is He trying to teach? To whom is He explaining His message? To infants just weaned from milk? To babies removed from the breast?
Isaiah 28:10For they hear: “Order on order, order on order, line on line, line on line; a little here, a little there.”
Jeremiah 5:4Then I said, “They are only the poor; they have played the fool, for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.
Jeremiah 5:5I will go to the powerful and speak to them. Surely they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.” But they too, with one accord, had broken the yoke and torn off the chains.
Matthew 15:16“Do you still not understand?” Jesus asked.
Matthew 15:17“Do you not yet realize that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then is eliminated?
Matthew 16:11How do you not understand that I was not telling you about bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
Luke 24:25Then Jesus said to them, “O foolish ones, how slow are your hearts to believe all that the prophets have spoken!
John 3:10“You are Israel’s teacher,” said Jesus, “and you do not understand these things?
1 Corinthians 3:2I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for solid food. In fact, you are still not ready,
Hebrews 5:11We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain, because you are dull of hearing.