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Matthew 15:16-23 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

16. Jesus said, "Are you still lacking in understanding also?

17. Do you not understand that everything that goes into the mouth passes into the stomach, and is eliminated?

18. But the things that proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and those defile the man.

19. For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, slanders.

20. These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man."

21. Jesus went away from there, and withdrew into the district of Tyre and Sidon.

22. And a Canaanite woman from that region came out and began to cry out, saying, "Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is cruelly demon-possessed."

23. But He did not answer her a word. And His disciples came and implored Him, saying, "Send her away, because she keeps shouting at us."

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