Matthew 15:17 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

¹⁷ Do you not realize that whatever enters a person’s mouth goes into his stomach and [eventually] passes out into the toilet?

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ Do you not see and understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the abdomen and so passes on into the place where discharges are deposited?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ Perceive ye not, that whatsoever goeth into the mouth passeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?

Common English Bible

¹⁷ Don’t you know that everything that goes into the mouth enters the stomach and goes out into the sewer?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ Do you not understand that everything that enters into the mouth goes into the gut, and is cast into the sewer?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ Do you not understand, that whatsoever entereth into the mouth, goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the privy?

Matthew 15:17 Cross References

Matthew 15:16

And He replied, “Are you still unable to understand?

Matthew 15:18

But the things that come out of a person’s mouth come from his heart. These are what [spiritually] corrupt a person.

Mark 7:19

It is because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and [eventually] passes out into the toilet.” By saying this He made all foods [ceremonially] acceptable.

Luke 6:45

The good person produces good things from the goodness stored up in his heart. And the evil person produces bad things from the evil [stored up in his heart]. For his mouth speaks what his heart is filled with.

1 Corinthians 6:13

“Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food;” but God will destroy both of them. Yet the body is not intended for sexual immorality, but is intended for the Lord’s [honor and service]; and the Lord is for the body’s [benefit].

James 3:6

And the tongue is [like] a fire [i.e., like that spark]. [For] the tongue, as a part of the body, is [like] the world of evil. It corrupts the entire life [of a person] and inflames the course of nature itself [i.e., it affects a person throughout his whole earthly existence], and is ignited by hell itself [i.e., the evil produced by the fiery tongue has hell as its source and destiny].