Mark 7:17-23

17And when he had entered athe house and left the people, bhis disciples asked him about the parable. 18And he said to them, Then care you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him, 19since it enters not his heart dbut his stomach, and is expelled?”
Greek goes out into the latrine
( fThus he declared all foods clean.)
20And he said, gWhat comes out of a person is what defiles him. 21For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, hmurder, adultery, 22coveting, wickedness, deceit, isensuality, jenvy, kslander, lpride, mfoolishness. 23 nAll these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”

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