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but it is in vain they worship Me, while they lay down precepts which are mere human rules.'"
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Then, when He had called the people to Him, Jesus said, "Hear and understand.
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It is not what goes into a man's mouth that defiles him; but it is what comes out of his mouth--*that* defiles a man."
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Then His disciples came and said to Him, "Do you know that the Pharisees were greatly shocked when they heard those words?"
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"Every plant," He replied, "which my Heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up.
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Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind; and if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into some pit."
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"Explain to us this figurative language," said Peter.
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"Are even you," He answered, "still without intellingence?
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Do you not understand that whatever enters the mouth passes into the stomach and is afterwards ejected from the body?
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But the things that come out of the mouth proceed from the heart, and it is these that defile the man.
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For out of the heart proceed wicked thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, perjury, impiety of speech.