English Standard Version

Matthew 15:12-19 English Standard Version (ESV)

12. Then the disciples came and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?”

13. He answered, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up.

14. Let them alone; they are blind guides.And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.”

15. But Peter said to him, “Explain the parable to us.”

16. And he said, “Are you also still without understanding?

17. Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled?

18. But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person.

19. For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.