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The Book of Mark, Chapter 7, Verse 19

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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;›
King James Version
‹Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?›
American Standard Version
because it goeth not into his heart, but into his belly, and goeth out into the draught? [This he said], making all meats clean.
New English Translation
All these evils come from within and defile a person.”
World English Bible
because it doesn't go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, thus purifying all foods?"
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And he said, ‹That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.›
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‹For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,›
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‹Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:›
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‹All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.›
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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.
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For a [certain] woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:
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The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.
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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.›
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And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.
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And he said unto her, ‹For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter.›