Mark 7:19

Free Bible Version

It doesn't go into your mind, but into your stomach, and then passes out of the body. So all foods are ceremonially ‘clean.’

Cross References

Matthew 15:17

“Don't you see that whatever goes in through the mouth then passes through the stomach, and then leaves the body as waste?

Mark 7:18

“Don't you understand it either?” he asked them. “Don't you see that what you eat doesn't make you unclean?

Luke 11:41

If, acting from within, you do acts of kindness to others, then everything will be clean to you.

Acts 10:15

He heard the voice speak again, “Don't you call unclean what God has made clean!”

Acts 11:9

The voice from heaven spoke again, and said, ‘Don't you call unclean what God has made clean!’

1 Corinthians 6:13

“Food for the stomach, and the stomach for food”—but God will destroy both of them. Also, the body is not meant to be used for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Colossians 2:16

So don't let anyone criticize you for what you eat or what you drink, or regarding which religious festival, new moon ritual, or ceremonial sabbaths you choose to observe.