Matthew 15:15-20

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁵ And Peter answering, said to him: Expound to us this parable.

¹⁶ But he said: Are you also yet without understanding?

¹⁷ Do you not understand, that whatsoever entereth into the mouth, goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the privy?

¹⁸ But the things which proceed out of the mouth, come forth from the heart, and those things defile a man.

¹⁹ For from the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.

²⁰ These are the things that defile a man. But to eat with unwashed hands doth not defile a man.