Mark Chapter 7 Verse 17And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.

‹Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching› [for] ‹doctrines the commandments of men.›

‹For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men,› [as] ‹the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.›

And he said unto them, ‹Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.›

‹For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:›

‹But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother,› [It is] ‹Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;› [he shall be free].

‹And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;›

‹Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.›

And when he had called all the people [unto him], he said unto them, ‹Hearken unto me every one› [of you], ‹and understand:›

‹There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.›

‹If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.›

And he saith unto them, ‹Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man,› [it] ‹cannot defile him;›

‹Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?›

And he said, ‹That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.›

‹For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,›

‹Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:›

‹All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.›

And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know [it]: but he could not be hid.

For a [certain] woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:

The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.

But Jesus said unto her, ‹Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast› [it] ‹unto the dogs.›

The Book of Mark, Chapter 7, Verse 17