11 (A)it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person.”

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17 Do you not see that (A)whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled?[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 15:17 Greek is expelled into the latrine

18 But (A)what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person.

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19 For out of the heart come (A)evil thoughts, (B)murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, (C)slander.

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