18 And He *said to them, “Are you so lacking in understanding also? Do you not understand that whatever goes into the man from outside cannot defile him, 19 because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and [a]is eliminated?” (Thus He declared (A)all foods (B)clean.) 20 And He was saying, (C)That which proceeds out of the man, that is what defiles the man.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 7:19 Lit goes out into the latrine