• Mark 7:8

    For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.

  • Mark 7:9

    And he said unto them,Full well ye rejectd the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.

  • Mark 7:10

    For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:

  • Mark 7:11

    But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.

  • Mark 7:12

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

  • Mark 7:13

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

  • Mark 7:14

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

  • Mark 7:15

    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.

  • Mark 7:16

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

  • Mark 7:17

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

  • Mark 7:18

    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;

  • Mark 7:19

    Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?

  • Mark 7:20

    And he said,That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.

  • Mark 7:21

    For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

  • Mark 7:22

    Thefts, covetousness,e wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

  • Mark 7:23

    All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

  • Mark 7:24

    And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know it: but he could not be hid.

  • Mark 7:25

    For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:

  • Mark 7:26

    The woman was a Greek,f a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.

  • Mark 7:27

    But Jesus said unto her,Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs.

  • Mark 7:28

    And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.

  • Mark 7:29

    And he said unto her,For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter.

  • Mark 7:30

    And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.

  • Mark 7:31

    And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he came unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.

  • Mark 7:32

    And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him.

  • Mark 7:33

    And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;

  • Mark 7:34

    And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him,Ephphatha, that is,Be opened.

  • Mark 7:35

    And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.

  • Mark 7:36

    And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it;

  • Mark 7:37

    And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.

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