All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”
there is nothing outside a person that by going in can defile, but the things that come out are what defile.”
He said to them, “So, are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile,
And he said, “It is what comes out of a person that defiles.
adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, pride, folly.
From there he set out and went away to the region of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know he was there. Yet he could not escape notice,
If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.
To the pure all things are pure, but to the corrupt and unbelieving nothing is pure; their very minds and consciences are corrupted.
Yet in the same way these dreamers also defile the flesh, reject authority, and slander the glorious ones.