Catholic Public Domain Version

Mark 7:16-22 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

16. Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear."

17. And when he had entered into the house, away from the crowd, his disciples questioned him about the parable.

18. And he said to them: "So, are you also without prudence? Do you not understand that everything entering to a man from outside is not able to pollute him?

19. For it does not enter into his heart, but into the gut, and it exits into the sewer, purging all foods."

20. "But," he said "the things which go out from a man, these pollute a man.

21. For from within, from the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

22. thefts, avarice, wickedness, deceitfulness, homosexuality, an evil eye, blasphemy, self-exaltation, foolishness.