Mark 7: 1 - 23
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Now when the Pharisees gathered together to him, with some of the scribes, who had come from Jerusalem,
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they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands defiled, that is, unwashed.
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(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they wash their hands, observing the tradition of the elders;
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and when they come from the market place, they do not eat unless they purify themselves; and there are many other traditions which they observe, the washing of cups and pots and vessels of bronze.)
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And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with hands defiled?"
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And he said to them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, `This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;
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in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.'
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You leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men."
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And he said to them, "You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God, in order to keep your tradition!
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For Moses said, `Honor your father and your mother'; and, `He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die';
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but you say, `If a man tells his father or his mother, What you would have gained from me is Corban' (that is, given to God) --
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then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother,
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thus making void the word of God through your tradition which you hand on. And many such things you do."
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And he called the people to him again, and said to them, "Hear me, all of you, and understand:
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there is nothing outside a man which by going into him can defile him; but the things which come out of a man are what defile him."
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And when he had entered the house, and left the people, his disciples asked him about the parable.
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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,
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since it enters, not his heart but his stomach, and so passes on?" (Thus he declared all foods clean.)
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And he said, "What comes out of a man is what defiles a man.
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For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, fornication, theft, murder, adultery,
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coveting, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.
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All these evil things come from within, and they defile a man."
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