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Matthew 15:15-21 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

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.

19. For from the heart go out evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.

20. These are the things that defile a man. But to eat without washing hands does not defile a man."

21. And departing from there, Jesus withdrew into the areas of Tyre and Sidon.

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