19 Most later add 7:16 “Let anyone with ears to hear, listen.” This verse is included in A D W Θ f1, 13 33 𝔐 latt sy, but is lacking in important Alexandrian and a few others (א B L Δ* 0274 28 2427). It appears to be a scribal gloss (see 4:9 and 4:23), perhaps introduced as a reiteration of the thought in 7:14, and is almost certainly not an original part of the Greek text of Mark. The present translation follows in omitting the verse number, a procedure also followed by a number of other modern translations.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

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.”

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them.”

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Nothing that goes into a person from outside can defile him but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.”

NLTNew Living Translation

It’s not what goes into your body that defiles you; you are defiled by what comes from your heart.”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

There is nothing outside of a person that is able to defile him by going into him. But the things that go out of a person are the things that defile a person.”

KJV 1900King James Version

There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.

Public Domain