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Passage Lookup: Matthew 15:11-19
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Matthew 15:11
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What goes into someone's mouth does not defile them,(g) but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them."(h)
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Matthew 15:12
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Then the disciples came to him and asked, "Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this?"
Matthew 15:13
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He replied, "Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted(i) will be pulled up by the roots.
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Matthew 15:14
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Leave them; they are blind guides.[d](j) If the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit."(k)
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Matthew 15:15
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Peter said, "Explain the parable to us."(l)
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Matthew 15:16
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"Are you still so dull?"(m) Jesus asked them.
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Matthew 15:17
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"Don't you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body?
Matthew 15:18
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But the things that come out of a person's mouth come from the heart,(n) and these defile them.
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Matthew 15:19
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For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.(o)
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