Matthew 15:11 - Tree of Life Version

¹¹ It’s not what goes into the mouth that makes the man unholy; but what comes out of the mouth, this makes the man unholy.”

More versions

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, lies and oppression. On his tongue are trouble and iniquity.

Psalm 12:2

Help, Adonai! For no one godly exists. For the faithful have vanished from the children of men.

Isaiah 37:23

Whom did you taunt and blaspheme? Against whom did you raise your voice and haughtily lift up your eyes? Against the Holy One of Israel!

Matthew 15:10

Then Yeshua called the crowd and said to them, “Hear and understand.

Matthew 15:12

Then the disciples came and said to Him, “Do You know that the Pharisees took offense when they heard this saying?”

Mark 7:15

There is nothing outside the man that can make him unholy by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of the man that makes the man unholy.”

Romans 14:14

I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Yeshua, that nothing is unholy in itself; but it is unholy for the one who considers it unholy.

Romans 14:17

for the kingdom of God is not about eating and drinking, but righteousness and shalom and joy in the Ruach ha-Kodesh.

Romans 14:20

Stop tearing down the work of God for the sake of food. Indeed all things are clean, but wrong for the man who by eating causes stumbling.

1 Timothy 4:3

They forbid people to marry; they command people to abstain from foods that God created for the faithful to share with thanksgiving, having come to know the truth.

Titus 1:15

To the pure all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Both their mind and conscience are defiled.

Hebrews 13:9

Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace—not by foods that have not benefited those occupied by them.

2 Peter 2:18

For by mouthing grandiosities that amount to nothing, they entice in sensual fleshly passions those who are barely escaping from those who live in error.