Mark 7:17-27

17 And when he had entered ¹the house and left the people, ²his disciples asked him about the parable.

18 And he said to them, "Then ³are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him,

19 since it enters not his heart ⁴but his stomach, and is expelled?"^[a] (⁵Thus he declared all foods clean.)

20 And he said, ⁶"What comes out of a person is what defiles him.

21 For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, ⁷murder, adultery,

22 coveting, wickedness, deceit, ⁸sensuality, ⁹envy, ¹⁰slander, ¹¹pride, ¹²foolishness.

23 ¹³All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person."

The Syrophoenician Woman's Faith

24 And from there he arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon.^[b] And he entered a house and did not want anyone to know, yet he could not be hidden.

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

26 ¹⁴Now the woman was a ¹⁵Gentile, ¹⁶a Syrophoenician by birth. And she begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter.

27 And he said to her, "Let the children be ¹⁷fed first, for it is not right to take the children's bread and ¹⁸throw it to the dogs."