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And so you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or mother,
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thus nullifying God's precept by your tradition which you have handed down. And many things of that kind you do."
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Then Jesus called the people to Him again. "Listen to me, all of you," He said, "and understand.
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There is nothing outside a man which entering him can make him unclean; but it is the things which come out of a man that make him unclean."
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After He had left the crowd and gone indoors, His disciples began to ask Him about this figure of speech.
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"Have *you* also so little understanding?" He replied; "do you not understand that anything whatever that enters a man from outside cannot make him unclean,
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because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and passes away ejected from him?" By these words Jesus pronounced all kinds of food clean.
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"What comes out of a man," He added, "that it is which makes him unclean.
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For from within, out of men's hearts, their evil purposes proceed--fornication, theft, murder, adultery,
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covetousness, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, reviling, pride, reckless folly: