Matthew 15:17

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

Do ye not yet understand, that everything going into the mouth proceeds to the belly, and is cast out in the privy?

Cross References

2 Kings 10:27

And they will lay waste the images of Baal, and they will lay waste the house of Baal, and they will set it for a sink even to this day.

Matthew 15:16

And Jesus said, Are ye also yet destitute of understanding?

Matthew 15:18

But the things going forth out of the mouth come from the heart, and these pollute the man.

Mark 7:19

For it goes not into the heart, but into the belly, and goes forth into the privy, purging all food

Luke 6:45

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart, brings forward the good thing; and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart, brings forward the evil thing: for out of the abundance of the heart does his month speak.

1 Corinthians 6:13

Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods: and God will also leave unemployed this and them. And the body not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

James 3:6

(And the tongue a fire, a world of iniquity: so the tongue is placed in our members, defiling the whole body, and burning the wheel of creation; and burned by hell.