Matthew 15:17-20

15:17 Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach and then passes out into the sewer? ¹  15:18 But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these things defile a person. 15:19 For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. 15:20 These are the things that defile a person; it is not eating with unwashed hands that defiles a person.” ² 

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¹ tn Or “into the latrine.”

² tn Grk “but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a person.”