20And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. …
There 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.
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-23)One great design of Christ’s coming, was, to set aside the ceremonial law which God made, and to put an end to it; to make way for which he begins with the ceremonial law which men had made, and added to the law of God’s making, and discharges his disciples from the obligation of that; which here he doth fully, upon occasion of the offence which the Pharisees took at them for the violation of it.…
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