Mark 7:15

7:15 There is nothing outside of a person that can defile him by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles him.”

Psalms 41:6

41:6 When someone comes to visit, ¹  he pretends to be friendly; ² 

he thinks of ways to defame me, ³ 

and when he leaves he slanders me. ⁴ 

Hebrews 7:6

7:6 But Melchizedek ⁵  who does not share their ancestry ⁶  collected a tithe ⁷  from Abraham and blessed ⁸  the one who possessed the promise.

Micah 2:1

Land Robbers Will Lose their Land

2:1 Those who devise sinful plans are as good as dead, ⁹ 

those who dream about doing evil as they lie in bed. ¹⁰ 

As soon as morning dawns they carry out their plans, ¹¹ 

because they have the power to do so.

Matthew 12:34-37

12:34 Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say anything good, since you are evil? For the mouth speaks from what fills the heart. 12:35 The good person ¹²  brings good things out of his ¹³  good treasury, ¹⁴  and the evil person brings evil things out of his evil treasury. 12:36 I ¹⁵  tell you that on the day of judgment, people will give an account for every worthless word they speak. 12:37 For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

James 1:14-15

1:14 But each one is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desires. 1:15 Then when desire conceives, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is full grown, it gives birth to death.

James 3:6

3:6 And the tongue is a fire! The tongue represents ¹⁶  the world of wrongdoing among the parts of our bodies. It ¹⁷  pollutes the entire body and sets fire to the course of human existence – and is set on fire by hell. ¹⁸ 

James 4:1

Passions and Pride

4:1 Where do the conflicts and where ¹⁹  do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, ²⁰  from your passions that battle inside you? ²¹ 

¹ tn Heb “to see.”

² tn Heb “he speaks deceitfully.”

³ tn Heb “his heart gathers sin to itself.”

⁴ tn Heb “he goes outside and speaks.”

⁵ tn Grk “the one”; in the translation the referent (Melchizedek) has been specified for clarity.

⁶ tn Grk “is not descended from them.”

⁷ tn Or “a tenth part.”

⁸ sn The verbs “collected…and blessed” emphasize the continuing effect of the past actions, i.e., Melchizedek’s importance.

⁹ tn Heb “Woe to those who plan sin.” The Hebrew term הוֹי (hoy, “woe”; “ah”) was a cry used in mourning the dead.

¹⁰ tn Heb “those who do evil upon their beds.”

¹¹ tn Heb “at the light of morning they do it.”

¹² tn The Greek text reads here ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpos). The term is generic referring to any person.

¹³ tn Grk “the”; the Greek article has been translated here and in the following clause (“his evil treasury”) as a possessive pronoun (ExSyn 215).

¹⁴ sn The treasury here is a metaphorical reference to a person’s heart (cf. BDAG 456 s.v. θησαυρός 1.b and the parallel passage in Luke 6:45).

¹⁵ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

¹⁶ tn Grk “makes itself,” “is made.”

¹⁷ tn Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

¹⁸ sn The word translated hell is “Gehenna” (γέεννα, geenna), a Greek transliteration of the Hebrew words ge hinnom (“Valley of Hinnom”). This was the valley along the south side of Jerusalem. In OT times it was used for human sacrifices to the pagan god Molech (cf. Jer 7:31; 19:5-6; 32:35), and it came to be used as a place where human excrement and rubbish were disposed of and burned. In the intertestamental period, it came to be used symbolically as the place of divine punishment (cf. 1 En. 27:2, 90:26; 4 Ezra 7:36).

¹⁹ tn The word “where” is repeated in Greek for emphasis.

²⁰ tn Grk “from here.”

²¹ tn Grk “in your members [i.e., parts of the body].”