Mark 7:19 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

¹⁹ because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ Since it does not reach and enter his heart but [only his] digestive tract, and so passes on [into the place designed to receive waste]? Thus He was making and declaring all foods [ceremonially] clean [that is, abolishing the ceremonial distinctions of the Levitical Law].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ because it goeth not into his heart, but into his belly, and goeth out into the draught? This he said, making all meats clean.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ That’s because it doesn’t enter into the heart but into the stomach, and it goes out into the sewer.” By saying this, Jesus declared that no food could contaminate a person in God’s sight.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ For it does not enter into his heart, but into the gut, and it exits into the sewer, purging all foods."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁹ Because it entereth not into his heart, but goeth into the belly, and goeth out into the privy, purging all meats?

Mark 7:19 Cross References

Matthew 15:17

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

Mark 7:18

And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;

Luke 11:41

But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you.

Acts 10:15

And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.

Acts 11:9

But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.

1 Corinthians 6:13

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

Colossians 2:16

Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: