Matthew 15:10–20

¹⁰After Jesus called the crowd to Him, He said to them, “Hear and understand.

¹¹“^aIt is not what enters into the mouth that defiles the man, but what proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.”

¹²Then the disciples came and said to Him, “Do You know that the Pharisees were ¹offended when they heard this statement?”

¹³But He answered and said, “^aEvery plant which My heavenly Father did not plant shall be uprooted.

¹⁴“Let them alone; ^athey are blind guides ¹of the blind. And ^bif a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”

The Heart of Man

¹⁵Peter ¹said to Him, “^aExplain the parable to us.”

¹⁶¹Jesus said, “Are you still lacking in understanding also?

¹⁷“Do you not understand that everything that goes into the mouth passes into the stomach, and is ¹eliminated?

¹⁸“But ^athe things that proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and those defile the man.

¹⁹“^aFor out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, ¹fornications, thefts, false witness, slanders.

²⁰“These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man.”