All these evils come from within and they defile.” The Syrophoenician Woman’s Faith.
Nothing that enters one from outside can defile that person; but the things that come out from within are what defile.” [
To the clean all things are clean, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is clean; in fact, both their minds and their consciences are tainted.
If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for the temple of God, which you are, is holy.
Similarly, these dreamers nevertheless also defile the flesh, scorn lordship, and revile glorious beings.
He said to them, “Are even you likewise without understanding? Do you not realize that everything that goes into a person from outside cannot defile,
“But what comes out of a person, that is what defiles.
adultery, greed, malice, deceit, licentiousness, envy, blasphemy, arrogance, folly.
From that place he went off to the district of Tyre. He entered a house and wanted no one to know about it, but he could not escape notice.