Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly and then out of the body?
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Matthew 15:17 in context
Matthew 15:14–20
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Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”
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Peter answered him, “Explain the parable to us.”
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So Jesus said, “Do you also still not understand?
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Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly and then out of the body?
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But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man.
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For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
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These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn’t defile the man.”
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