Matthew 15
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Matthew 15:16-22

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.

19For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.

20These are the things that defile a person; it is not eating with unwashed hands that defiles a person.”

21After going out from there, Jesus went to the region of Tyre and Sidon.

22A Canaanite woman from that area came and cried out, “Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is horribly demon-possessed!”

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