For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

For from within, out of the heart of men, evil thoughts proceed, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,

for from within, out of the heart of men, the evil reasonings do come forth, adulteries, whoredoms, murders,

For from within, out of men's hearts, their evil purposes proceed - fornication, theft, murder, adultery,

Because from inside, from the heart of men, come evil thoughts and unclean pleasures,

For from within, out of the heart of man,.... The inside of man is very bad, his inward part is not only wicked, but wickedness itself, yea, very wickedness, Psalm 5:9, in him dwells no good thing naturally, his heart is wicked, and desperately so; it is full of evil; and out of the abundance of it, proceed the evil things hereafter mentioned; all its powers and faculties are vitiated, there is no place clean; the understanding and judgment are dreadfully corrupted; the mind and conscience are defiled; the affections are inordinate; not only the thought, but every imagination of the thought of the heart is evil, and that continually: what good thing therefore, can come out of such a Nazareth as this? Nothing, but what follows: for from hence
proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders; which several things are related in Mat_. 15:19 see the note on Matthew 15:19; only the order here is a little different; "murders", which are here mentioned last, are there put after "evil thoughts".