Matthew 15:18

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

But the things that come out of a person’s mouth come from his heart. These are what [spiritually] corrupt a person.

Cross References

Matthew 12:34

You children of snakes! Since you are evil, how do you expect to speak good things? For the mouth speaks what the heart is filled with.

Matthew 15:11

It is not what enters the mouth of a person that [spiritually] corrupts him, but what proceeds out of his mouth that [spiritually] corrupts him.”

Matthew 15:17

Do you not realize that whatever enters a person’s mouth goes into his stomach and [eventually] passes out into the toilet?

Mark 7:20

And He said, “Whatever proceeds out of a man’s life is what [spiritually] corrupts him.

Luke 19:22

The gentleman replied to him, ‘I will judge you [based] on what you [yourself] have [just] said, you evil slave. [Since] you knew that I am a hard man to deal with, picking up [and keeping] something I had not laid down, and harvesting a crop I had not planted,