¹⁷ Don’t you understand that whatever you take in through your mouth makes its way to your stomach and eventually out of the bowels of your body? ¹⁸ But the things that come out of your mouth—your curses, your fears, your denunciations—these come from your heart, and it is the stirrings of your heart that can make you unclean. ¹⁹ For your heart harbors evil thoughts—fantasies of murder, adultery, and whoring; fantasies of stealing, lying, and slandering.