MARK 7:13-27

¹³making void the word of God by your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye do.

¹⁴And he called to him the multitude again, and said unto them, Hear me all of you, and understand:

¹⁵there is nothing from without the man, that going into him can defile him: but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.

¹⁷And when he was entered into the house from the multitude, his disciples asked of him the parable.

¹⁸And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Perceive ye not, that whatsoever from without goeth into the man, it cannot defile him;

¹⁹because it goeth not into his heart, but into his belly, and goeth out into the draught? This he said, making all meats clean.

²⁰And he said, That which proceedeth out of the man, that defileth the man.

²¹For from within, out of the heart of men, evil thoughts proceed, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,

²²covetings, wickednesses, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, railing, pride, foolishness:

²³all these evil things proceed from within, and defile the man.

²⁴And from thence he arose, and went away into the borders of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered into a house, and would have no man know it: and he could not be hid.

²⁵But straightway a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard of him, came and fell down at his feet.

²⁶Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by race. And she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.

²⁷And he said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children’s bread and cast it to the dogs.