Add parallel Print Page Options

17 Do you not realize that everything that enters the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled into the latrine? 18 (A)But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile. 19 [a]For from the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, unchastity, theft, false witness, blasphemy.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 15:19 The Marcan list of thirteen things that defile (Mk 7:21–22) is here reduced to seven that partially cover the content of the Decalogue.

17 “Don’t you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body? 18 But the things that come out of a person’s mouth come from the heart,(A) and these defile them. 19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.(B)

Read full chapter