New Revised Standard Version
And he said, “It is what comes out of a person that defiles.

Contemporary English Version
Then Jesus said: What comes from your heart is what makes you unclean.

New American Bible
“But what comes out of a person, that is what defiles.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But he said that the things which come out from a man, they defile a man.

But he said that the things which come out from a man, they defile a man.

Mark 7:15 There is nothing from without a man that entering into him can defile him. But the things which come from a man, those are they that defile a man.

Psalm 41:6 And if he came in to see me, he spoke vain things: his heart gathered together iniquity to itself. He went out and spoke to the same purpose.

Hebrews 7:6 But he, whose pedigree is not numbered among them, received tithes of Abraham and blessed him that had the promises.

Micah 2:1 Make thee bald, and be polled for thy delicate children: enlarge thy baldness as the eagle: for they are carried into captivity from thee.

Matthew 12:34-37 O generation of vipers, how can you speak good things, whereas you are evil? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. . . .

James 1:14,15 But every man is tempted by his own concupiscence, being drawn away and allured. . . .

James 3:6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is placed among our members, which defileth the whole body and inflameth the wheel of our nativity, being set on fire by hell.

James 4:1 From whence are wars and contentions among you? Are they not hence, from your concupiscences, which war in your members?