Mark 7:19

James Moffatt - New Testament

It does not enter his heart but his belly and passes from that into the drain" (thus he pronounced all food clean).

Cross References

Matthew 15:17

Do you not see how all that enters the mouth passes into the belly and is then thrown out into the drain,

1 Corinthians 6:13

'Food is meant for the stomach, and the stomach for food'? Yes, and God will do away with the one and the other. The body is not meant for immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body;

Acts 11:9

But a voice answered me for the second time out of heaven, 'What God has cleansed, you must not regard as common.'

Acts 10:15

A second time the voice came back to him, "What God has cleansed, you must not regard as common."

Luke 11:41

Better cleanse what is within; then nothing will be unclean for you.

Colossians 2:16

So let no one take you to task on questions of eating and drinking or in connexion with the observance of festivals or new moons or sabbaths.

Mark 7:18

He said to them, "So you do not understand, either? Do you not see how nothing outside a man can defile him by entering him?