15Nothing outside a man can make him 'unclean' by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a man that makes him 'unclean.' "


In Context

12 then you no longer let him do anything for his father or mother.

13 Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that."

14 Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, "Listen to me, everyone, and understand this.

15 Nothing outside a man can make him 'unclean' by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a man that makes him 'unclean.' "

17 After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable.

18 "Are you so dull?" he asked. "Don't you see that nothing that enters a man from the outside can make him 'unclean'?

Mark 7:15 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

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

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

7:15there is nothing from without the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:15There is nothing from outside a man entering into him which can defile him; but the things which go out from him, those it is which defile the man.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

7:15there is nothing from without the man, that going into him can defile him: but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:15There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

7:15there is nothing from without the man entering into him that is able to defile him, but the things coming out from him, those are the things defiling the man.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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.