Mark 7:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁹ since it enters not the heart but the stomach and goes out into the sewer?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.)

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

Mark 7:18

He said to them, “So, are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile,

Luke 11:41

So give as alms those things that are within and then everything will be clean for you.

Acts 10:15

The voice said to him again, a second time, “What God has made clean, you must not call profane.”

Acts 11:9

But a second time the voice answered from heaven, ‘What God has made clean, you must not call profane.’

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 sexual immorality but for the Lord and the Lord for the body.

Colossians 2:16

Therefore, do not let anyone condemn you in matters of food or drink or of observing festivals, new moons, or Sabbaths.