Mark 7:19

Easy To Read Version

Food does not go into a person’s mind. Food goes into the stomach. Then that food goes out of the body.” (When Jesus said this, he meant that there is no food that is wrong for people to eat.)

Cross References

Matthew 15:17

Surely you know that all the food that enters a person’s mouth goes into the stomach. Then that food goes out of the body.

1 Corinthians 6:13

“Food is for the stomach, and the stomach for food.” Yes. And God will destroy them both. But the body is not for sexual sin. The body is for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.

Acts 11:9

But the voice from the sky answered again, ‘God has made these things clean (pure). Don’t call them unholy!’

Acts 10:15

But the voice said to him again, “God has made these things clean (pure). Don’t call them ‘unholy’!”

Luke 11:41

So pay attention to what is inside. Give to the people that need help. Then you will be fully clean.

Colossians 2:16

So don’t let any person make rules for you about eating and drinking or about Jewish customs (festivals, New Moon celebrations, {\cf2\super [12]} or Sabbath days {\cf2\super [13]}).

Mark 7:18

Jesus said, “You still have trouble understanding? Surely you know that nothing that enters a person from the outside can make him wrong.