New Revised Standard Version
there is nothing outside a person that by going in can defile, but the things that come out are what defile.”

New American Bible
Nothing that enters one from outside can defile that person; but the things that come out from within are what defile.” [

Douay-Rheims Bible
There is nothing from without a man that entering into him can defile him. But the things which come from a man, those are they that defile a man.

There is nothing from without a man that entering into him can defile him. But the things which come from a man, those are they that defile a man.

There.

nothing.

Mark 7:18-20 And he saith to them: So are you also without knowledge? Understand you not that every thing from without entering into a man cannot defile him: . . .

Leviticus 11:42-47 Whatsoever goeth upon the breast on four feet, or hath many feet, or traileth on the earth, you shall not eat, because it is abominable. . . .

Acts 10:14-16,28 But Peter said: Far be it from me. For I never did eat any thing that is common and unclean. . . .

Acts 11:8-10 And I said: Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath ever entered into my mouth. . . .

Acts 15:20,21 But that we write unto them, that they refrain themselves from the pollutions of idols and from fornication and from things strangled and from blood. . . .

Romans 14:17 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink: but justice and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.

1 Corinthians 10:25 Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, eat: asking no question for conscience' sake.

1 Timothy 4:3-5 Forbidding to marry, to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful and by them that have known the truth. . . .

Titus 1:15 All things are clean to the clean: but to them that are defiled and to unbelievers, nothing is clean: but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

Hebrews 9:10 And divers washings and justices of the flesh laid on them until the time of correction.

Hebrews 13:9 Be not led away with various and strange doctrines. For it is best that the heart be established with grace, not with meats: which have not profited those that walk in them.

but.

Mark 7:20-23 But he said that the things which come out from a man, they defile a man. . . .

Proverbs 4:23 Remove from thee a froward mouth, and let detracting lips be far from thee.

Matthew 12:34 O generation of vipers, how can you speak good things, whereas you are evil? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

Matthew 15:16 But he said: Are you also yet without understanding?