Matthew 15:17

Legacy Standard Bible

Do you not understand that everything that goes into the mouth passes into the stomach, and goes into the sewer?

Cross References

2 Kings 10:27

They also broke down the sacred pillar of Baal and broke down the house of Baal and made it a latrine to this day.

Matthew 15:16

And Jesus said, “Are you still lacking in understanding also?

Matthew 15:18

But the things that proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and those defile the man.

Mark 7:19

because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and goes to the sewer?” (Thus He declared all foods clean.)

Luke 6:45

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth what is good; and the evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth what is evil. For his mouth speaks from the abundance of his heart.

1 Corinthians 6:13

Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both of them. Yet the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire, the very world of unrighteousness; the tongue is set among our members as that which defiles the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our existence, and is set on fire by hell.