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covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.
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The Heart's Corrupt Fountain
Commentators emphasize that this list of sins illustrates a deeper truth: a corrupt heart is the source of all wickedness. As one scholar puts it, just as a corrupt fountain sends forth corrupt streams, a corrupt heart produces sinful actions, words, and desires. The true issue is not external but internal defilement.
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19th Century
Anglican
Covetousness, wickedness.—The Greek words for these are, like the preceding, in the plural, as pointing to the manifold forms in w…
The main force of this passage is the same as in v.15b: the source of uncleanness in anyone is the heart (Jeremiah 17:9), for that is w…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Thefts These also are mentioned in Matthew, but Mark omits "false witnesses", and adds the following; which, excepti…
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Presbyterian
Our wicked thoughts and affections, words and actions, defile us, and these only. As a corrupt fountain sends forth corrupt streams, so does a corr…
