Mark 7:22 Meaning and Explanation
“Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:”
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Read Full Chapter →The inventory continues: thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.
What Does Mark 7:22 Mean?
The catalogue widens from deeds to dispositions: theft and deceit, but also covetousness — the hunger for more — and an evil eye, an old idiom for envy that begrudges another person their good. Pride and foolishness close the list: sins of posture as much as of act.
The list refuses our rankings. Respectable sins — envy, greed, pride — stand shoulder to shoulder with theft and blasphemy, all rising from the same source. No one reads this inventory from the outside; it presses every honest reader toward the same prayer: Lord, make me clean within.
Mark 7:22 in the Original Language
pleonexia (πλεονεξία), 'covetousness' -- the greed that always wants more.
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What does Mark 7:22 mean?
The inventory continues: thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.