Matthew 15:17 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

¹⁷ Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach, and goes out into the sewer?

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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?

Matthew 15:17 Cross References

2 Kings 10:27

Then they demolished the pillar of Baal, and destroyed the temple of Baal, and made it a latrine to this day.

Matthew 15:16

Then he said, “Are you also still without understanding?

Matthew 15:18

But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this is what defiles.

Mark 7:19

since it enters, not the heart but the stomach, and goes out into the sewer?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.)

Luke 6:45

The good person out of the good treasure of the heart produces good, and the evil person out of evil treasure produces evil; for it is out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaks.

1 Corinthians 6:13

“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food,” and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is meant not for fornication but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is placed among our members as a world of iniquity; it stains the whole body, sets on fire the cycle of nature, and is itself set on fire by hell.