10. Didn't Moses command you to respect your father and mother? Didn't he tell you to put to death all who curse their parents?
11. But you let people get by without helping their parents when they should. You let them say that what they own has been offered to God.
12. You won't let those people help their parents.
13. And you ignore God's commands in order to follow your own teaching. You do a lot of other things that are just as bad.
14. Jesus called the crowd together again and said, “Pay attention and try to understand what I mean.
15-16. The food that you put into your mouth doesn't make you unclean and unfit to worship God. The bad words that come out of your mouth are what make you unclean.”
17. After Jesus and his disciples had left the crowd and had gone into the house, they asked him what these sayings meant.
18. He answered, “Don't you know what I am talking about by now? Surely you know that the food you put into your mouth cannot make you unclean.
19. It doesn't go into your heart, but into your stomach, and then out of your body.” By saying this, Jesus meant that all foods were fit to eat.
20. Then Jesus said:What comes from your heart is what makes you unclean.
21. Out of your heart come evil thoughts, vulgar deeds, stealing, murder,
22. unfaithfulness in marriage, greed, meanness, deceit, indecency, envy, insults, pride, and foolishness.
23. All these come from your heart, and they are what make you unfit to worship God.