Matthew 15:17 - The Scriptures 1998

¹⁷ “Do you not understand that whatever enters into the mouth goes into the stomach, and is cast out in 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

and broke down the statue of Baʽ

Matthew 15:16

And יהושע  said, “Are you also still without understanding?

Matthew 15:18

“But what comes out of the mouth comes from the heart, and these defile the man.

Mark 7:19

because it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and is eliminated, thus purging all the foods?”

Luke 6:45

“The good man brings forth what is good out of the good treasure of his heart, and the wicked man brings forth what is wicked out of the wicked treasure of his heart. For out of the overflow of the heart his mouth speaks.

1 Corinthians 6:13

Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods – but Elohim shall destroy both it and them. And the body is not for whoring but for the Master, and the Master for the body.

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness. Among our members the tongue is set, the one defiling the entire body, and setting on fire the wheel of life, and it is set on fire by Gehenna.