Mark 7:18-20

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁸ And he said to them, “Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a man from outside cannot defile him, ¹⁹ since it enters, not his heart but his stomach, and so passes on?”^[a] (Thus he declared all foods clean.) ²⁰ And he said, “What comes out of a man is what defiles a man.