And having called the crowd together again, he said to them:

‘Everyone, listen to me and understand. Nothing outside a person, going into them, can make them unclean., but the things that come out from them they make a person unclean.’

And when he went into the house, away from the crowd, his disciples asked him about the saying. 

And he said to them:  ‘So are you also without understanding, do you not perceive that everything which goes into a person from outside cannot make them unclean? For it does not enter their heart but their guts and goes out into the sewer. ‘ (Cleansing all food).

He said: ‘What goes out from a person, that makes them unclean. For from within, from a person’s heart, come out the bad thoughts: sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, wickedness, deceit, indecency, an evil eye, slander, pride, foolishness.

‘All these evil things come out from within and make a person unclean.’

Lord, you have given me so much,
I ask for one more thing –
a grateful heart.

George Herbert