Matthew 15:15-20

Heavenly father
give us grace today to cleanse our souls from everything which defiles us.  

¹⁵ Peter answered him, “Explain the parable to us.”
¹⁶ So Jesus said, “Do you also still not understand? 
¹⁷ Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly and then out of the body? 
¹⁸ But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man. 
¹⁹ For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies. 
²⁰ These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn’t defile the man.”