Mar 7:21 | RWP | e4.org | Evil thoughts ( ο διαλογισμο ο κακο ). These come out of the heart ( εκ της καρδιας ), the inner man, and lead to the dreadful list here given like the crimes of a modern police court: fornications ( πορνεια , usually of the unmarried), adulteries ( μοιχαια , of the married), thefts ( κλοπα , stealings), covetings ( πλεονεξια , craze for more and more), murders ( φονο , growing out of the others often), wickednesses ( πονηρια , from πονος , toil, then drudge, bad like our knave , serving boy like German Knabe , and then criminal), deceit ( δολος , lure or snare with bait), lasciviousness ( ασελγεια , unrestrained sex instinct), evil eye ( οφθαλμος πονηρος ) or eye that works evil and that haunts one with its gloating stare, railing ( βλασφημια , blasphemy, hurtful speech), pride ( υπερηφανια , holding oneself above others, stuck up), foolishness ( αφροσυνη , lack of sense), a fitting close to it all.

‏ Mark 7:21

Evil thoughts ( ο διαλογισμο ο κακο ). These come out of the heart ( εκ της καρδιας ), the inner man, and lead to the dreadful list here given like the crimes of a modern police court:

fornications ( πορνεια, usually of the unmarried),

adulteries ( μοιχαια, of the married),

thefts ( κλοπα, stealings),

covetings ( πλεονεξια, craze for more and more),

murders ( φονο, growing out of the others often),

wickednesses ( πονηρια, from πονος, toil, then drudge, bad like our knave, serving boy like German Knabe, and then criminal),

deceit ( δολος, lure or snare with bait),

lasciviousness ( ασελγεια, unrestrained sex instinct),

evil eye ( οφθαλμος πονηρος ) or eye that works evil and that haunts one with its gloating stare,

railing ( βλασφημια, blasphemy, hurtful speech),

pride ( υπερηφανια, holding oneself above others, stuck up),

foolishness ( αφροσυνη, lack of sense), a fitting close to it all.