Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23
7 Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him, 2 they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them. 3 (For the Pharisees, and all the Judeans, do not eat unless they wash their hands, thus observing the tradition of the elders, 4 and they do not eat anything from the market unless they wash, and there are also many other traditions that they observe: the washing of cups and pots and bronze kettles and beds.) 5 So the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders but eat with defiled hands?” 6 He said to them, “Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is written,
‘This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me;7 in vain do they worship me, teaching human precepts as doctrines.’
8 “You abandon the commandment of God and hold to human tradition.” …
14 Then he called the crowd again and said to them, “Listen to me, all of you, and understand: 15 there is nothing outside a person that by going in to them can defile them, but the things that come out of a person are what defile.” …
21 For it is from within, from the human heart, that evil intentions come: sexual immorality, theft, murder, 22 adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, pride, folly. 23 All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”
James 1:17-27
17 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. 18 God chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all God created.
19 My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, 20 because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires. 21 Therefore, get rid of the abundance of malice and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which is able to save your souls.
22 Be doers of the word and not hearers only, and so deceive yourselves. 23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at their face in a mirror 24 and, after looking, goes away and immediately forgets what they look like. 25 But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not having become a forgetful hearer, but an active doer, —they will be blessed in what they do.
26 Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues deceives their heart, and their religion is worthless. 27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
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