What Truly Defiles a Person

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Then he called the whole multitude vnto him, and sayd vnto them, Hearken you all vnto me, and vnderstand.

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There is nothing without a man, that can defile him, when it entreth into him: but the things which proceede out of him, are they which defile the man.

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If any haue eares to heare, let him heare.

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And when hee came into an house, away from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.

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And he sayde vnto them, What? are ye without vnderstanding also? Doe ye not knowe that whatsoeuer thing from without entreth into a man, cannot defile him,

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Because it entreth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught which is the purging of all meates?

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Then he sayd, That which commeth out of man, that defileth man.

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For from within, euen out of the heart of men, proceede euill thoughtes, adulteries, fornications, murthers,

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Theftes, couetousnes, wickednes, deceite, vncleannes, a wicked eye, backbiting, pride, foolishnesse.

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All these euill things come from within, and defile a man.

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