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Matthew 15:13-19 Good News Bible Catholic Edition (GNBDK)

13. “Every plant which my Father in heaven did not plant will be pulled up,” answered Jesus.

14. “Don't worry about them! They are blind leaders of the blind; and when one blind man leads another, both fall into a ditch.”

15. Peter spoke up, “Explain this saying to us.”

16. Jesus said to them, “You are still no more intelligent than the others.

17. Don't you understand? Anything that goes into a person's mouth goes into his stomach and then on out of his body.

18. But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these are the things that make a person ritually unclean.

19. For from his heart come the evil ideas which lead him to kill, commit adultery, and do other immoral things; to rob, lie, and slander others.

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