Mark 7:15-21

¹⁵There is nothing external to a person, which by going into them can defile them; but the things that come out of a person are the things that defile them.”

¹⁷When Jesus went indoors, away from the crowd, his disciples began questioning him about this saying.

¹⁸“What, do even you understand so little?” exclaimed Jesus. “Don't you see that there is nothing external to a person, which by going into a person, can defile them,

¹⁹because it does not pass into his heart, but into his stomach, and is afterward got rid of?” — in saying this Jesus pronounced all food clean.

²⁰“It is what comes out from a person,” he added, “that defiles them,

²¹for it is from within, out of the hearts of people, that there come evil thoughts — sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,