What Truly Defiles a Person

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He summoned the multitude, and said to them, “Hear, and understand.

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That which enters into the mouth doesn’t defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.”

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Then the disciples came, and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended, when they heard this saying?”

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But he answered, “Every plant which my heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted.

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Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”

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Peter answered him, “Explain the parable to us.”

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So Yeshua said, “Do you also still not understand?

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Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and then out of the body?

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But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man.

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For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

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These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn’t defile the man.”