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Mark 7:18-22 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

18. He said to them, “Are even you likewise without understanding? Do you not realize that everything that goes into a person from outside cannot defile,

19. since it enters not the heart but the stomach and passes out into the latrine?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.)

20. “But what comes out of a person, that is what defiles.

21. From within people, from their hearts, come evil thoughts, unchastity, theft, murder,

22. adultery, greed, malice, deceit, licentiousness, envy, blasphemy, arrogance, folly.

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