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You false ones, well did Isaiah say of you,
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These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
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But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.
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And he got the people together and said to them, Give ear, and let my words be clear to you:
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Not that which goes into the mouth makes a man unclean, but that which comes out of the mouth.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Then Peter said to him, Make the story clear to us.
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And he said, Are you, like them, still without wisdom?
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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?