Matthew 15:17

Easy To Read Version

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.

Cross References

2 Kings 10:27

Then they smashed the memorial stones of Baal. They also smashed the temple of Baal. They made the temple of Baal into a restroom. People still use that place as a toilet.

Matthew 15:16

Jesus said, “You still have trouble understanding?

Matthew 15:18

But the bad things a person says with his mouth come from the way a person thinks. And these are the things that make a person wrong. {\cf2\super [209]}

Mark 7:19

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.)

Luke 6:45

A good person has good things saved in his heart. And so he brings good things out of his heart. But an evil person has evil things saved in his heart. So he brings out bad things. A person speaks the things that are in his heart.

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.

James 3:6

The tongue is like a fire. It is a world of evil among the parts of our body. How? The tongue spreads its evil through our whole body. It starts a fire that influences all of life. The tongue gets this fire from hell.