^23 (A)All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”

^15 (A)There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.”^[a]

^15 (A)To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and ^(B)unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both ^(C)their minds and their consciences are defiled.

¹⁷ If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For ^(A)God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.

⁸ Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and ^(A)blaspheme the glorious ones.

¹⁸ And he said to them, “Then ^(A)are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him,