Defile (Become Unclean)

Or haven’t you read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple break the Sabbath and yet are innocent?

A man is not defiled by what enters his mouth, but by what comes out of it.”

But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these things defile a man.

These are what defile a man, but eating with unwashed hands does not defile him.”

Nothing that enters a man from the outside can defile him; but the things that come out of a man, these are what defile him.”

“Are you still so dull?” He asked. “Do you not understand? Nothing that enters a man from the outside can defile him,

He continued: “What comes out of a man, that is what defiles him.

All these evils come from within, and these are what defile a man.”

The voice spoke to him a second time: “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”

But the voice spoke from heaven a second time, ‘Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.’

crying out, “Men of Israel, help us! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people and against our law and against this place. Furthermore, he has brought Greeks into the temple and defiled this holy place.”

and he even tried to desecrate the temple; so we seized him.

For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that their bodies are clean,