Matthew 15:9-11

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁹in vain do they worship me,
teaching human precepts as doctrines.”’

Things That Defile

¹⁰Then he called the crowd to him and said to them, ‘Listen and understand: ¹¹it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles.’

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