Matthew 15:11-18

11What goes into a person’s mouth doesn’t make him unclean. It’s what comes out of the mouth that makes a person unclean.”

12Then the disciples came and said to him, “Do you realize that when the Pharisees heard your statement they were offended?”

13He answered, “Any plant that my heavenly Father did not plant will be uprooted.

14Leave them alone! They are blind leaders. When one blind person leads another, both will fall into the same pit.”

15Peter said to him, “Explain this illustration to us.”

16Jesus said, “Don’t you understand yet?

17Don’t you know that whatever goes into the mouth goes into the stomach and then into a toilet?

18But whatever goes out of the mouth comes from within, and that’s what makes a person unclean.