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Then he said, "Are you also still without understanding?
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Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach, and goes out into the sewer?
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But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this is what defiles.
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For out of the heart come evil intentions, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander.
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These are what defile a person, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile."
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Jesus left that place and went away to the district of Tyre and Sidon.
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Just then a Canaanite woman from that region came out and started shouting, "Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is tormented by a demon."
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But he did not answer her at all. And his disciples came and urged him, saying, "Send her away, for she keeps shouting after us."
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He answered, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
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But she came and knelt before him, saying, "Lord, help me."
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He answered, "It is not fair to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs."