Mark 7:15-21

¹⁵There is nothing from outside of a person that can defile him when it enters into him. It is what comes out of the person that defiles him.”

¹⁷Now when Jesus left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about the parable.

¹⁸Jesus said, “Are you also still without understanding? Do you not see that whatever enters into a person from outside cannot defile him,

¹⁹because it cannot go into his heart, but it goes into his stomach and then passes out into the latrine?” With this statement Jesus declared all foods clean.

²⁰He said, “It is that which comes out of the person that defiles him.

²¹For from within a person, out of the heart, proceed evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder,