Matthew 15:11-18

11What defiles a person is not what goes into the mouth; it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles a person.”

12Then the disciples came to him and said, “Do you know that when the Pharisees heard this saying they were offended?”

13And he replied, “Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant will be uprooted.

14Leave them! They are blind guides. If someone who is blind leads another who is blind, both will fall into a pit.”

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

16Jesus said, “Even after all this, are you still so foolish?

17Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach and then passes out into the sewer?

18But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these things defile a person.