Matthew 15:17

Catholic Public Domain Version

Do you not understand that everything that enters into the mouth goes into the gut, and is cast into the sewer?

Cross References

2 Kings 10:27

and crushed it. They also tore down the temple of Baal, and they made it into a latrine, even to this day.

Matthew 15:16

But he said: "Are you, even now, without understanding?

Matthew 15:18

But what proceeds from the mouth, goes forth from the heart, and those are the things that defile a man.

Mark 7:19

For it does not enter into his heart, but into the gut, and it exits into the sewer, purging all foods."

Luke 6:45

A good man, from the good storehouse of his heart, offers what is good. And an evil man, from the evil storehouse, offers what is evil. For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

1 Corinthians 6:13

Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food. But God shall destroy both the stomach and food. And the body is not for fornication, but rather for the Lord; and the Lord is for the body.

James 3:6

And so the tongue is like a fire, comprising all iniquity. The tongue, stationed in the midst of our body, can defile the entire body and inflame the wheel of our nativity, setting a fire from Hell.