Mark 7:6-23

6He said to them, “Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written: ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

7They worship me in vain, teaching as doctrine the commandments of men.’

8Having no regard for the command of God, you hold fast to human tradition.”

9He also said to them, “You neatly reject the commandment of God in order to set up your tradition.

10For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.’

11But you say that if anyone tells his father or mother, ‘Whatever help you would have received from me is corban’ (that is, a gift for God),

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

13Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like this.”

14Then he called the crowd again and said to them, “Listen to me, everyone, and understand.

15There is nothing outside of a person that can defile him by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles him.”

17Now when Jesus had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about the parable.

18He said to them, “Are you so foolish? Don’t you understand that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him?

19For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer.” (This means all foods are clean.)

20He said, “What comes out of a person defiles him.

21For from within, out of the human heart, come evil ideas, sexual immorality, theft, murder,

22adultery, greed, evil, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, pride, and folly.

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