The Complete Jewish Bible CJB
The Bible in Basic English BBE
11 What makes a person unclean is not what goes into his mouth; rather, what comes out of his mouth, that is what makes him unclean!"
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Not that which goes into the mouth makes a man unclean, but that which comes out of the mouth.
12 The talmidim came to him and said, "Do you know that the P'rushim were offended by what you said?"
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Then the disciples came and said to him, Did you see that the Pharisees were troubled when these words came to their ears?
13 He replied, "Every plant that my Father in heaven has not planted will be pulled up by the roots.
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But he said in answer, Every plant which my Father in heaven has not put in the earth, will be taken up by the roots.
14 Let them be. They are blind guides. When a blind man guides another blind man, both will fall in a pit."
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Let them be: they are blind guides. And if a blind man is guiding a blind man, the two will go falling into a hole together.
15 Kefa said to him, "Explain the parable to us."
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Then Peter said to him, Make the story clear to us.
16 So he said, "Don't you under stand even now?
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And he said, Are you, like them, still without wisdom?
17 Don't you see that anything that enters the mouth goes into the stomach and passes out into the latrine?
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Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth goes on into the stomach, and is sent out as waste?
18 But what comes out of your mouth is actually coming from your heart, and that is what makes a person unclean.
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But the things which come out of the mouth come from the heart; and they make a man unclean.
19 For out of the heart come forth wicked thoughts, murder, adultery and other kinds of sexual immorality, theft, lies, slanders. . . .
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For out of the heart come evil thoughts, the taking of life, broken faith between the married, unclean desires of the flesh, taking of property, false witness, bitter words:
20 These are what really make a person unclean, but eating without doing n'tilat-yadayim does not make a person unclean."
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These are the things which make a man unclean; but to take food with unwashed hands does not make a man unclean.
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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