Matthew 15:10-20

Moffatt(i) 10 Then he called the crowd and said to them, "Listen, understand this: 11 it is not what enters a man's mouth that defiles him, what defiles a man is what comes out of his mouth." 12 Then the disciples came up and said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees have taken offence at what they hear you say?" 13 He replied, "Any plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up. 14 Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind, and if one blind man leads another, both of them will fall into a pit." 15 Peter answered, "Explain this parable to us at anyrate." 16 He said, "And are you totally ignorant? 17 Do you not see how all that enters the mouth passes into the belly and is then thrown out into the drain, 18 while what comes out of the mouth comes from the heart — and that is what defiles a man. 19 For out of the heart come evil designs, murder, adultery, sexual vice, stealing, false witness, and slander. 20 That is what defiles a man; a man is not defiled by eating with hands unwashed!"