Defilement from Within

14 And summoning the crowd again, he said to them, “Listen to me, all of you, and understand: 15 There is nothing outside of a person that is able to defile him by[a] going into him. But the things that go out of a person are the things that defile a person.”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 7:15 Here “by” is supplied as a component of the participle (“going”) which is understood as means
  2. Mark 7:15 Most later manuscripts add v. 16, “If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.”