What Truly Defiles a Person

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And having called near the multitude, he said to them, `Hear and understand:

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not that which is coming into the mouth doth defile the man, but that which is coming forth from the mouth, this defileth the man.'

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Then his disciples having come near, said to him, `Hast thou known that the Pharisees, having heard the word, were stumbled?'

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And he answering said, `Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant shall be rooted up;

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let them alone, guides they are--blind of blind; and if blind may guide blind, both into a ditch shall fall.'

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And Peter answering said to him, `Explain to us this simile.'

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And Jesus said, `Are ye also yet without understanding?

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do ye not understand that all that is going into the mouth doth pass into the belly, and into the drain is cast forth?

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but the things coming forth from the mouth from the heart do come forth, and these defile the man;

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for out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, whoredoms, thefts, false witnessings, evil speakings:

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these are the things defiling the man; but to eat with unwashen hands doth not defile the man.'