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 \v 15 Peter said to Jesus, "Explain to us the parable about what a person eats."
 \v 16 Jesus replied to them, "You should certainly understand what I teach, but  I am disappointed that you do not.
-\v 17 You ought to understand that whatever food people eat enters their stomachs, and later what remains passes out of their bodies. What people eat does not cause God to reject them.
+\v 17 You ought to understand that whatever food people eat enters their stomachs, and later what remains passes out of their bodies.
 
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 \v 18 Instead, the evil words that the mouth speaks are what makes God reject a person, because they come from the evil things that the person thinks in his innermost being.