And he went on to say, “It is what comes out of you that makes you unclean.
And the tongue is like a fire. It is a world of wrong, occupying its place in our bodies and spreading evil through our whole being. It sets on fire the entire course of our existence with the fire that comes to it from hell itself.
Where do all the fights and quarrels among you come from? They come from your desires for pleasure, which are constantly fighting within you.
There is nothing that goes into you from the outside which can make you ritually unclean. Rather, it is what comes out of you that makes you unclean.”
How terrible it will be for those who lie awake and plan evil! When morning comes, as soon as they have the chance, they do the evil they planned.
Those who come to see me are not sincere; they gather bad news about me and then go out and tell it everywhere.
Melchizedek was not descended from Levi, but he collected one tenth from Abraham and blessed him, the man who received God's promises.
But Jesus answered, “The scripture says, ‘Human beings cannot live on bread alone, but need every word that God speaks.’”
But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these are the things that make you ritually unclean.
For from the inside, from your heart, come the evil ideas which lead you to do immoral things, to rob, kill,
all these evil things come from inside you and make you unclean.”