Matthew 15:17

God's Word

Don’t you know that whatever goes into the mouth goes into the stomach and then into a toilet?

Cross References

2 Kings 10:27

They destroyed the sacred stone of Baal and the temple of Baal and made it into a latrine. It is still a latrine today.

Matthew 15:16

Jesus said, “Don’t you understand yet?

Matthew 15:18

But whatever goes out of the mouth comes from within, and that’s what makes a person unclean.

Mark 7:19

It doesn’t go into his thoughts but into his stomach and then into a toilet.” (By saying this, Jesus declared all foods acceptable.)

Luke 6:45

Good people do the good that is in them. But evil people do the evil that is in them. The things people say come from inside them.

1 Corinthians 6:13

Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food, but God will put an end to both of them. However, the body is not for sexual sin but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.

James 3:6

The tongue is that kind of flame. It is a world of evil among the parts of our bodies, and it completely contaminates our bodies. The tongue sets our lives on fire, and is itself set on fire from hell.