Mark 7:14-24 (Gospel)
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- When He had called all the multitude to Himself, He said to them, “Hear Me, everyone, and understand:
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- There is nothing that enters a man from outside which can defile him; but the things which come out of him, those are the things that defile a man.
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- If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!”
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- When He had entered a house away from the crowd, His disciples asked Him concerning the parable.
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- So He said to them, “Are you thus without understanding also? Do you not perceive that whatever enters a man from outside cannot defile him,
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- because it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and is eliminated, thus purifying all foods?”
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- And He said, “What comes out of a man, that defiles 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, lewdness, 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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- From there He arose and went to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And He entered a house and wanted no one to know it, but He could not be hidden.