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MATTHEW 15:1-2 (NIV) “Then some Pharisees and teachers of the law came to Jesus from Jerusalem and asked, ‘Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They don’t wash their hands before they eat!’” . MATTHEW 15:3 (NIV)
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MATTHEW 15:1-2 (NIV) “Then some Pharisees and teachers of the law came to Jesus from Jerusalem and asked, ‘Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They don’t wash their hands before they eat!’”
MATTHEW 15:3 (NIV) “Jesus replied, “And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?”
MATTHEW 15:8-9 (NIV) “‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men.’”
MATTHEW 15:17-18 (NIV) “Don’t you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body? But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these make a man ‘unclean.’”
MATTHEW 15:19-20 (NIV) “For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. These are what make a man ‘unclean’; but eating with unwashed hands does not make him ‘unclean.’ ”
JAMES 4:1 (NIV) “What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you?”
LUKE 6:45 (NIV) “The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.”
MATTHEW 6:19-21 (NIV) “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
JAMES 3:9-11 (NIV) “With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God’s likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers, this should not be. Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring?”
JEREMIAH 17:9 (NIV) “The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?”
EZEKIEL 36:26 (NIV) “…to give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.”
EXODUS 8:15 (NIV) “But when Pharaoh saw that there was relief, he hardened his heart and would not listen to Moses and Aaron.”
PSALM 51:10 (NIV) “Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.”