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Mark 7:20

First Nations Version

“It is what comes out of a person, from within, that makes one impure.

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and the tongue is itself a flame of fire. The tongue is a world full of evil and spreads its poison throughout the body. The words spoken by the tongue have the power to set on fire the very circle of life itself, and its flames come from the Valley of Smoldering Fire.


Where do the wars, fights, and arguments among you come from? Do they not come from the selfish desires that wage war in your own bodies?


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.”


But this man, Chief Who Stands for What Is Right (Melchizedek), received a tenth from Father of Many Nations (Abraham), even though he is not descended from He Brings Together (Levi), and he blessed the one to whom the Great Spirit gave the promises.


“The Sacred Teachings are clear,” Creator Sets Free (Jesus) said. “Human beings cannot live only on frybread, but on all the words that come from the mouth of the Great Spirit.”


It is what comes out from the mouth, from deep inside, that makes people impure.


From people’s bad hearts and broken ways come worthless plans, sexual impurity, stealing, killing,


It is things like this that make a person impure, not failing to wash one’s hands.”





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