Mark 7:6-23

6And he said to them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, "'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;

7in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'

8You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men."

9And he said to them, "You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition!

10For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother'; and, 'Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.'

11But you say, 'If a man tells his father or his mother, "Whatever you would have gained from me is Corban"' (that is, given to God)—

12then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother,

13thus making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do."

14And he called the people to him again and said to them, "Hear me, all of you, and understand:

15There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him."

17And when he had entered the house and left the people, his disciples asked him about the parable.

18And he said to them, "Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him,

19since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled?" (Thus he declared all foods clean.)

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

21For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,

22coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.

23All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person."