Being Defiled

Nothing that goes into a person from outside can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.
(Mark 7:15-16 Holman Christian Standard Bible ®©)

Your responses to your surroundings either strengthen you or defile you. The responses that are forged in the purifying flame of the fruit of the Spirit of Life sanctify you and present Life to those who experience your responses (Galatians 5:22-23). The responses that burst from your fleshly dreads and desires defile you and your witnesses with death (Galatians 5:16-21).