"Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man."
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Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth.
Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.
For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
The tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner.
For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.
I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.
Not that which goes into the mouth makes a man unclean, but that which comes out of the mouth.
Not what enters into the mouth defiles the man; but what goes forth out of the mouth, this defiles the man.
Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
That which enters into the mouth doesn't defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man."
not that which is coming into the mouth doth defile the man, but that which is coming forth from the mouth, this defileth the man.'