Mark 7:15-19

15 It’s not what goes into your body that defiles you; you are defiled by what comes from your heart. ”

16

17 Then Jesus went into a house to get away from the crowd, and his disciples asked him what he meant by the parable he had just used.

18 “Don’t you understand either?” he asked. “Can’t you see that the food you put into your body cannot defile you?

19 Food doesn’t go into your heart, but only passes through the stomach and then goes into the sewer.” (By saying this, he declared that every kind of food is acceptable in God’s eyes.)

Footnotes

• [a] Some manuscripts add verse 16, Anyone with ears to hear should listen and understand. Compare 4:9, 23 .