So He said to them, "Are you also without understanding? Do you not understand that everything entering a man from outside cannot defile him,

And He said, "That which comes out of a man, that defiles a man.

And every [animal] that creeps on its belly, and everyone that goes on four [feet] continually, which abounds with feet among all the reptiles creeping upon the earth- you shall not eat it, for it is an abomination to you.

For I am the Lord your God; and you shall be sanctified, and you shall be holy, because I the Lord your God am holy; and you shall not defile your souls with any of the reptiles creeping upon the earth.

This is the law concerning beasts and birds and every living creature moving in the water, and every living creature creeping on the earth;

But Peter said, "By no means, Lord! For never did I eat anything common or unclean."

And this happened three times, and again the vessel was taken up into heaven.

"But I said, 'By no means, Lord! For nothing common or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.'

"And this was done three times, and again all things were drawn up into heaven.

but that we write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, from things strangled, and [from] blood.

"For Moses has had from ancient generations those who proclaim him in each city, being read in the synagogues from one Sabbath to another."

For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Eat everything being sold in the meat market, questioning nothing, for conscience' sake;

forbidding to marry, [commanding] to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who are believers and have come to know the truth.

for it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.

All things indeed are pure to the pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but even their mind and conscience have been defiled.

[concerned] only with foods and drinks, various washings, and fleshly ordinances which are imposed until a time of reformation.

Do not be carried away with various and strange doctrines. For it is good [for] the heart to be established by grace, not by foods, by which those having walked were not profited.

And He said, "That which comes out of a man, that defiles a man.

thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, arrogance, foolishness.

Keep your heart with the utmost care, for out of these are the issues of life.

Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

So Jesus said, "Are you also still without understanding?