Matthew 15:19 — Compare Translations

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For out of the heart come evil thoughts (reasonings and disputings and designs) such as murder, adultery, sexual vice, theft, false witnessing, slander, and irreverent speech.

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

For out of the heart come evil thoughts (reasonings and disputings and designs) such as murder, adultery, sexual vice, theft, false witnessing, slander, and irreverent speech.

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

For from the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, slander.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings, blasphemies;

English EASY 2024

Evil thoughts come from people's minds. As a result, they do wrong things. They murder people. They have sex with another man's wife. They have sex in other wrong ways. They rob people. They tell lies about other people. They insult people.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

All these bad things begin in the mind: evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual sins, stealing, lying, and insulting people.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.

English GNT (Good News Translation)

For from your heart come the evil ideas which lead you to kill, commit adultery, and do other immoral things; to rob, lie, and slander others.

English God's Word - GW 1995

Evil thoughts, murder, adultery, {other} sexual sins, stealing, lying, and cursing come from within.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

For from the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.

English KJV 1611

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

English LSB

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false witness, slanders.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immorality, thefts, false witness, and blasphemies.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

"For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, slanders.

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

For from the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, unchastity, theft, false witness, blasphemy.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

Evil thoughts come out of the heart. So do murder, adultery, and other sexual sins. And so do stealing, false witness, and telling lies about others.

English NIV

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.

English NKJ 1982

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.

English NLT

For from the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, all other sexual immorality, theft, lying, and slander.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

For out of the heart come evil intentions, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander.

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

You will find living within an impure heart evil ideas, murderous thoughts, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, lies, and slander.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander.

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

For from the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, lying, and slander.

English Tyndale 1537

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, breaking of wedlock, whoredom, theft, false witness bearing, blasphemy.