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If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
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And when he was come into the house from the multitude, his disciples asked him the parable.
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And he saith to them: So are you also without knowledge? Understand you not that every thing from without entering into a man cannot defile him:
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Because it entereth not into his heart but goeth into his belly and goeth out into the privy, purging all meats?
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But he said that the things which come out from a man, they defile a man.
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For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
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Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.
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All these evil things come from within and defile a man.
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And rising from thence he went into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon: and entering into a house, he would that no man should know it. And he could not be hid.
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For a woman as soon as she heard of him, whose daughter had an unclean spirit, came in and fell down at his feet.
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For the woman was a Gentile, a Syrophenician born. And she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.