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adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, folly.
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All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person."
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From there he set out and went away to the region of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know he was there. Yet he could not escape notice,
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but a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him, and she came and bowed down at his feet.
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Now the woman was a Gentile, of Syrophoenician origin. She begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter.
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He said to her, "Let the children be fed first, for it is not fair to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs."
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But she answered him, "Sir, even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs."
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Then he said to her, "For saying that, you may go—the demon has left your daughter."
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So she went home, found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.
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Then he returned from the region of Tyre, and went by way of Sidon towards the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis.
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They brought to him a deaf man who had an impediment in his speech; and they begged him to lay his hand on him.