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Mark 7:15

First Nations Version

There is nothing you can take into your mouth that will make you impure. It is what comes out of your mouth that makes you impure.”

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To the pure, all things are pure. But to those who are unclean because they do not believe the truth, nothing is pure, for both in their minds and deep within their hearts they have been made unclean.


Do not let all kinds of strange teachings take you down a wrong path. For our hearts are made strong by the gift of Creator’s great kindness, not from following rules about what foods to eat. These kinds of rules have not helped those who have followed after them.


These things are only concerned with food and drink and different kinds of ceremonial washings—rules about outward things. They were needed until it was time for a new way to be revealed.


“You nest of poisonous snakes! How can you who are evil speak any good things? What is in your hearts will come out of your mouths.


For Creator’s good road is not about eating or drinking. Instead, it is about doing what is right in Creator’s eyes, about walking his path of peace, and finding the joy that comes from the Holy Spirit.


Go ahead and eat the food offered at the trading posts without asking any questions. Then you will not have to trouble yourself about it.


“As all of you must know,” he said to them, “it is against our law for a Tribal Member like myself to have anything to do with someone from an Outside Nation. But Creator has helped me to see that I should not consider anyone to be impure or unclean.


“Do you still not understand,” he answered,


Creator Sets Free (Jesus) then gathered the people around him and said, “Listen with your hearts and understand what I tell you.





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