Mark 7:9-23

9And he said to them, Well do ye set aside the commandment of 1God, that ye may observe what is delivered by yourselves [to keep].

10For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, he who speaks ill of father or mother, let him surely die.

11But ye say, If a man say to his father or his mother, [It is] corban (that is, gift), whatsoever thou mightest have profit from me by...

12And ye no longer suffer him to do anything for his father or his mother;

13making void the word of 2God by your traditional teaching which ye have delivered; and many such like things ye do.

14And having called again the crowd, he said to them, Hear me, all [of you], and understand:

15There is nothing from outside a man entering into him which can defile him; but the things which go out from him, those it is which defile the man.

16If any one have ears to hear, let him hear.

17And when he went indoors from the crowd, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.

18And he says to them, Are ye also thus unintelligent? Do ye not perceive that all that is outside entering into the man cannot defile him,

19because it does not enter into his heart but into his belly, and goes out into the draught, purging all meats?

20And he said, That which goes forth out of the man, that defiles the man.

21For from within, out of the heart of men, go forth evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

22thefts, covetousness, wickednesses, deceit, licentiousness, a wicked eye, injurious language, haughtiness, folly;

23all these wicked things go forth from within and defile the man.