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18 And He *said to them, “Are you lacking understanding in this way as well? Do you not [a]perceive 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 goes to the sewer?” (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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  1. Mark 7:18 Or understand; see Matt 15:17, but cf. Mark 8:17

18 “Are you so dull?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them? 19 For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods(A) clean.)(B)

20 He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them.

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