Mark 7:9-23

9He also said to them, “You have a fine way of invalidating God’s command in order to set up your tradition!

10For Moses said: Honor your father and your mother; and Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must be put to death.

11But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or mother: Whatever benefit you might have received from me is corban’” (that is, an offering devoted to God),

12“you no longer let him do anything for his father or mother.

13You nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many other similar things.”

14Summoning the crowd again, he told them, “Listen to me, all of you, and understand:

15Nothing that goes into a person from outside can defile him but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.”

17When he went into the house away from the crowd, his disciples asked him about the parable.

18He said to them, “Are you also as lacking in understanding? Don’t you realize that nothing going into a person from the outside can defile him?

19For it doesn’t go into his heart but into the stomach and is eliminated” (thus he declared all foods clean).

20And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him.

21For from within, out of people’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders,

22adulteries, greed, evil actions, deceit, self-indulgence, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness.

23All these evil things come from within and defile a person.”