Mark 7:21

21 For from within, out of the heart of men, come forth the evil thoughts, the adulteries, the fornications, the murders,

Mark 7:21 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 7:21

For from within, out of the heart of man
The inside of man is very bad, his inward part is not only wicked, but wickedness itself, yea, very wickedness, ( Psalms 5:9 ) , in him dwells no good thing naturally, his heart is wicked, and desperately so; it is full of evil; and out of the abundance of it, proceed the evil things hereafter mentioned; all its powers and faculties are vitiated, there is no place clean; the understanding and judgment are dreadfully corrupted; the mind and conscience are defiled; the affections are inordinate; not only the thought, but every imagination of the thought of the heart is evil, and that continually: what good thing therefore, can come out of such a Nazareth as this? Nothing, but what follows: for from hence

proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders;
which several things are related in Mt. 15:19 see the note on "Mt 15:19";
only the order here is a little different; "murders", which are here mentioned last, are there put after "evil thoughts".

Mark 7:21 In-Context

19 Because it enters not into his heart, but into the belly, and the man goes out to the privy and purges all foods.

20 For he had said that it is what comes out of the man that defiles the man.

21 For from within, out of the heart of men, come forth the evil thoughts, the adulteries, the fornications, the murders,

22 the thefts, the covetousness, the wickedness, the deceit, the lasciviousness, the evil eye, the slander, the pride, the unwiseness:

23 all these evil things come out from within and defile the man.