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19 Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
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For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.)
20 And he said,That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
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He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them.
21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
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For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder,
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