Matthew 15:17

Free Bible Version

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

Cross References

2 Kings 10:27

They smashed the sacred pillar of Baal, and tore down the temple of Baal and turned it into a toilet, which it still is to this day.

Matthew 15:16

“Haven't you understood this yet?” replied Jesus.

Matthew 15:18

But what comes out through the mouth comes from the mind, and that's what defiles you.

Mark 7:19

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

Luke 6:45

Good people produce what's good from the good things they value that they have stored inside them. Bad people produce what's bad from the bad things they have stored inside them. What fills people's minds spills out in what they say.

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.

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire! The tongue is a world of evil among the parts of the body. It disgraces all you are as a person, and can burn down the whole of your life, since it is set on fire by Gehenna.