Matthew 15:9-11

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁹in vain do they worship me,
teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.’”

Things That Defile

¹⁰And he called the people to him and said to them, “Hear and understand: ¹¹not what goes into the mouth defiles a man, but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.”

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