All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”
To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled.
If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.
There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.”
Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones.
And he said to them, “Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him,
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