New International Reader's Version

Matthew 15:13-18 New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

13. Jesus replied, "There are plants that my Father in heaven has not planted. They will be pulled up by the roots.

14. Leave them. The Pharisees are blind guides. If a blind person leads another who is blind, both of them will fall into a pit."

15. Peter said, "Explain this to us."

16. "Don't you understand yet?" Jesus asked them.

17. "Don't you see? Everything that enters the mouth goes into the stomach. Then it goes out of the body.

18. But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart. Those are the things that make you 'unclean.'