February 8, 2012, Gospel

7:14	And again, calling the crowd to him, he said to them: “Listen to me, all of you, and understand.
7:15	There is nothing from outside a man which, by entering into him, is able to defile him. But the things which procede from a man, these are what pollute a man.
7:16	Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.”
7:17	And when he had entered into the house, away from the crowd, his disciples questioned him about the parable.
7:18	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?
7:19	For it does not enter into his heart, but into the gut, and it exits into the sewer, purging all foods.”
7:20	“But,” he said “the things which go out from a man, these pollute a man.
7:21	For from within, from the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
7:22	thefts, avarice, wickedness, deceitfulness, homosexuality, an evil eye, blasphemy, self-exaltation, foolishness.
7:23	All these evils procede from within and pollute a man.”

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