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Mark 7:22

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Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
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  1. Matthew 20:15Rank 1 from verse 22
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    15Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?

  2. 1 Peter 2:15Rank 2 from verse 22
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    15For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

  3. 1 Peter 5:5Rank 3 from verse 22
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    5Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

  4. 2 Corinthians 10:5Rank 4 from verse 22
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    5Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

  5. Ecclesiastes 7:25Rank 5 from verse 22
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    25I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:

  6. Matthew 6:23Rank 6 from verse 22
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    23But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!

  7. Obadiah 1:3–4Rank 7 from verse 22
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    3¶ The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?

    4Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord.

  8. 1 Samuel 18:8–9Rank 8 from verse 22
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    8And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom?

    9And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.

  9. 2 Chronicles 32:25–26Rank 9 from verse 22
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    25But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.

    26Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the Lord came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.

  10. 2 Chronicles 32:31Rank 10 from verse 22
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    31¶ Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.

  11. Deuteronomy 15:9Rank 11 from verse 22
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    9Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the Lord against thee, and it be sin unto thee.

  12. Deuteronomy 28:54Rank 12 from verse 22
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    54So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:

  13. Deuteronomy 28:56Rank 13 from verse 22
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    56The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

  14. Proverbs 12:23Rank 14 from verse 22
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    23A prudent man concealeth knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness.

  15. Proverbs 22:15Rank 15 from verse 22
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    15Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

  16. Proverbs 23:6Rank 16 from verse 22
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    6Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:

  17. Proverbs 24:9Rank 17 from verse 22
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    9The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.

  18. Proverbs 27:22Rank 18 from verse 22
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    22Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

  19. Proverbs 28:22Rank 19 from verse 22
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    22He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.

  20. Psalms 10:4Rank 20 from verse 22
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    4The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

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Mark 7:22

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covetousness

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A selfish or inordinate desire to possess or gain, especially wealth or property; greed or avarice.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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deceit

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Falsehood, guile, fraud, trickery, or a purpose, word, or act intended to mislead.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

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evil

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Sense 1: Moral wickedness, sin, wrong, or corruption. Sense 2: Harm, misery, calamity, adversity, or punishment.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

eye

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Sense 1: The bodily organ of sight; by extension, sight or seeing. Sense 2: Regard, judgment, disposition, or watchful attention, expressed figuratively by the eye. Sense 3: A small opening, as the eye of a needle. Sense 4: To watch or regard.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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blasphemy

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Reviling, contemptuous, or irreverent speech against God, his name, or what belongs to him; by extension in stated contexts, abusive or slanderous speech against persons.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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pride

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1. Self-exaltation, arrogance, haughtiness, or vaunted strength. 2. Splendour, glory, or that in which one glories.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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7:14¶ And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand:

7:15There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.

7:16If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.

7:17And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.

7:18And 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;

7:19Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?

7:20And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.

7:21For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

7:22Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

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7:23All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

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