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You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied rightly about you when he said:
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"This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me;
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in vain do they worship me, teaching human precepts as doctrines.' "
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Then he called the crowd to him and said to them, "Listen and understand:
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it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles."
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Then the disciples approached and said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees took offense when they heard what you said?"
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He answered, "Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted.
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Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if one blind person guides another, both will fall into a pit."
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But Peter said to him, "Explain this parable to us."
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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?