Mark 7:17-23 (New International Version)
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After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him1 about this parable.
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"Are you so dull?" he asked. "Don't you see that nothing that enters a man from the outside can make him 'unclean'?
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For it doesn't go into his heart but into his stomach, and then out of his body." (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods2 "clean.")3
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He went on: "What comes out of a man is what makes him 'unclean.'
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For from within, out of men's hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
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greed,4 malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly.
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All these evils come from inside and make a man 'unclean.' "
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