Mark 7:13-27

¹³Making the word of God of no effect by your rule, which you have given: and a number of other such things you do.

¹⁴And turning to the people again, he said to them, Give ear to me all of you, and let my words be clear to you:

¹⁵There is nothing outside the man which, going into him, is able to make him unclean: but the things which come out of the man are those which make the man unclean.

¹⁷And when he had gone into the house away from all the people, his disciples put questions to him about the saying.

¹⁸And he said to them, Have even you so little wisdom? Do you not see that whatever goes into a man from outside is not able to make him unclean,

¹⁹Because it goes not into the heart but into the stomach, and goes out with the waste? He said this, making all food clean.

²⁰And he said, That which comes out of the man, that makes the man unclean.

²¹Because from inside, from the heart of men, come evil thoughts and unclean pleasures,

²²The taking of goods and of life, broken faith between husband and wife, the desire of wealth, wrongdoing, deceit, sins of the flesh, an evil eye, angry words, pride, foolish acts:

²³All these evil things come from inside, and make the man unclean.

²⁴And he went away from there to the country of Tyre and Sidon. And he went into a house, desiring that no man might have knowledge of it: and he was not able to keep it secret.

²⁵But a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having had news of him, came straight away and went down at his feet.

²⁶Now the woman was a Greek, a Syro-phoenician by birth: and she made a request to him that he would send the evil spirit out of her daughter.

²⁷And he said to her, Let the children first have their food: for it is not right to take the children's bread and give it to the dogs.