The King James Version Bible

Mark 7:12-18

  1. And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;

  2. Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.

  3. And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand:

  4. 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.

  5. If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.

  6. And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.

  7. And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;