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Matthew 15:20

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These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.

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  1. Matthew 15:18

    But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.

  2. Matthew 15:19

    For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

  3. Matthew 15:21

    Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.

  4. Matthew 15:22

    And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.

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