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Matthew 15:13-18 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

13. But in response he said: "Every plant which has not been planted by my heavenly Father shall be uprooted.

14. Leave them alone. They are blind, and they lead the blind. But if the blind are in charge of the blind, both will fall into the pit."

15. And responding, Peter said to him, "Explain this parable to us."

16. But he said: "Are you, even now, without understanding?

17. Do you not understand that everything that enters into the mouth goes into the gut, and is cast into the sewer?

18. But what proceeds from the mouth, goes forth from the heart, and those are the things that defile a man.

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