Like the Pharisees who boasted of fasting (Luke 18:12), the abstemious may be reinforcing egocentric pride over their abstinence.13 Jesus warned that one is «not defiled by what goes into his mouth, but by what comes out of it» (Matt. (religion-online.org)
Persons are not defiled by other things, but by themselves and their own disobedience to God. (religion-online.org)
A 50 - year - old man, Alhassan Mahamud, alias Armpress, has been sentenced to nine years imprisonment with hard labour by a Circuit Court for defiling a 12 - year - old in the Yendi Municipality of the Northern Region. (citifmonline.com)