There is nothing outside of a person that can defile him by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles him."

You must not eat anything that crawls on its belly or anything that walks on all fours or on any number of legs of all the swarming things that swarm on the land, because they are detestable.

Guard your heart with all vigilance, for from it are the sources of life.

Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say anything good, since you are evil? For the mouth speaks from what fills the heart.

Jesus said, "Even after all this, are you still so foolish?

He said to them, "Are you so foolish? Don't you understand that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him?

But Peter said, "Certainly not, Lord, for I have never eaten anything defiled and ritually unclean!"

He said to them, "You know that it is unlawful for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile, yet God has shown me that I should call no person defiled or ritually unclean.

But I said, 'Certainly not, Lord, for nothing defiled or ritually unclean has ever entered my mouth!'

but that we should write them a letter telling them to abstain from things defiled by idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood.

For the kingdom of God does not consist of food and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Eat anything that is sold in the marketplace without questions of conscience,

They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

All is pure to those who are pure. But to those who are corrupt and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their minds and consciences are corrupted.

They served only for matters of food and drink and various washings; they are external regulations imposed until the new order came.

Do not be carried away by all sorts of strange teachings. For it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not ritual meals, which have never benefited those who participated in them.

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Summary

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.

Bible References

Nothing

He said to them, "Are you so foolish? Don't you understand that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him?
You must not eat anything that crawls on its belly or anything that walks on all fours or on any number of legs of all the swarming things that swarm on the land, because they are detestable.
But Peter said, "Certainly not, Lord, for I have never eaten anything defiled and ritually unclean!"
But I said, 'Certainly not, Lord, for nothing defiled or ritually unclean has ever entered my mouth!'
but that we should write them a letter telling them to abstain from things defiled by idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood.
For the kingdom of God does not consist of food and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Eat anything that is sold in the marketplace without questions of conscience,
They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
All is pure to those who are pure. But to those who are corrupt and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their minds and consciences are corrupted.
They served only for matters of food and drink and various washings; they are external regulations imposed until the new order came.
Do not be carried away by all sorts of strange teachings. For it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not ritual meals, which have never benefited those who participated in them.

But

He said, "What comes out of a person defiles him.
Guard your heart with all vigilance, for from it are the sources of life.
Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say anything good, since you are evil? For the mouth speaks from what fills the heart.
Jesus said, "Even after all this, are you still so foolish?

General references

"Tell the Israelites: 'This is the kind of creature you may eat from among all the animals that are on the land.
So the prophet Jeremiah spoke to all the people of Judah and to all the people who were living in Jerusalem.
The one who has ears had better listen!"
He said, "What comes out of a person defiles him.

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