Matthew 15:18

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Cross References

Psalm 36:3

Hope in the Lord and do good, and dwell in the land, and so you shall be pastured with its riches.

Proverbs 10:32

The lips of the just consider what is acceptable. And the mouth of the impious considers perversities.

Proverbs 15:2

The tongue of the wise adorns knowledge. But the mouth of the senseless gushes with foolishness.

Proverbs 15:28

The mind of the just meditates on obedience. The mouth of the impious overflows with evils.

Proverbs 4:23

Preserve your heart with all watchfulness, for life proceeds from this.

Proverbs 6:12

An apostate man, a harmful man, walks with a perverse mouth;

Matthew 12:34

Progeny of vipers, how are you able to speak good things while you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

Matthew 15:11

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

Matthew 15:17

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

Mark 7:20

"But," he said "the things which go out from a man, these pollute a man.

Luke 19:22

He said to him: 'By your own mouth, do I judge you, O wicked servant. You knew that I am an austere man, taking up what I did not lay down, and reaping what I did not sow.

1 Samuel 24:13

May the Lord judge between me and you. And may the Lord vindicate me from you. But my hand will not be against you.