Matthew 15:11 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹¹ Not that which entereth into the mouth defileth the man; but that which proceedeth out of the mouth, this defileth the man.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ It is not what goes into the mouth of a man that makes him unclean and defiled, but what comes out of the mouth; this makes a man unclean and defiles [him].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ Not that which entereth into the mouth defileth the man; but that which proceedeth out of the mouth, this defileth the man.

Common English Bible

¹¹ It’s not what goes into the mouth that contaminates a person in God’s sight. It’s what comes out of the mouth that contaminates the person.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ A man is not defiled by what enters into the mouth, but by what proceeds from the mouth. This is what defiles a man."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man: but what cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.

Matthew 15:11 Cross References

Psalm 10:7

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression: Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

Psalm 12:2

They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: With flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.

Isaiah 37:23

Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.

Matthew 15:10

And he called to him the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand:

Matthew 15:12

Then came the disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, when they heard this saying?

Mark 7:15

there is nothing from without the man, that going into him can defile him: but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.

Romans 14:14

I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself: save that to him who accounteth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

Romans 14:17

for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.

Romans 14:20

Overthrow not for meat's sake the work of God. All things indeed are clean; howbeit it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.

1 Timothy 4:3

forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by them that believe and know the truth.

Titus 1:15

To the pure all things are pure: but to them that are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

Hebrews 13:9

Be not carried away by divers and strange teachings: for it is good that the heart be stablished by grace; not by meats, wherein they that occupied themselves were not profited.

2 Peter 2:18

For, uttering great swelling words of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in error;