Mark 7:15-19 There is nothing outside a man that can defile him by going into him; rather, the things that come out of him, those are the ones that defile him.

WPNT⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁵ There is nothing outside a man that can defile him by going into him; rather, the things that come out of him, those are the ones that defile him. ¹⁶ If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!” ¹⁷ When He had entered a house away from the crowd, His disciples started to question Him about the parable. ¹⁸ So He said to them: “Can you really be without understanding? Don’t you perceive that nothing that enters a man from outside can defile him, ¹⁹ because it doesn’t go into his heart, but into his stomach, which then expels the impure aspects of the food?”