Mark 7:22
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greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.
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FOUR THOUSAND MIRACULOUSLY FED--A SIGN FROM HEAVEN SOUGHT AND REFUSED--THE LEAVEN OF THE PHARISEES AND SADDUCEES--A BLIND MAN AT BETHSAIDA RESTORED TO SIGHT. ( = Mat. 15:32-16:12). (Mark 8:1-26) In those days the multitude being very great, &c.
Open source ↗In this chapter we have, I. Christ's dispute with the scribes and Pharisees about eating meat with unwashen hands (Mar 7:1-13); and the needful instructions he gave to the people on that occasion, and further explained to his disciples (Mar 7:14-23). II. His curing of the woman Canaan's daughter that was possessed (Mar 7:24-30). III. The relief of a man that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech (Mar 7:31-37).
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Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
For it is God’s will that by doing good you should silence the ignorance of foolish men.
Young men, in the same way, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
I directed my mind to understand, to explore, to search out wisdom and explanations, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the folly of madness.
We tear down arguments and every presumption set up against the knowledge of God; and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty awaits him.
The most gentle and refined man among you will begrudge his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children who have survived,
Though you grind a fool like grain with mortar and a pestle, yet his folly will not depart from him.
And so when ambassadors of the rulers of Babylon were sent to him to inquire about the wonder that had happened in the land, God left him alone to test him, that He might know all that was in Hezekiah’s heart.