Matthew 15:17

Modern King James Version

Do you not yet understand that whatever enters in at the mouth goes into the belly, and is cast out into the waste-bowl?

Cross References

2 Kings 10:27

And they broke down the image of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal and made it a sewer-house until this day.

Matthew 15:16

And Jesus said, Are you also still without understanding?

Matthew 15:18

But the things which come out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile the man.

Mark 7:19

because it does not enter into his heart, but into the belly, and goes out into the waste-bowl, purifying all food?

Luke 6:45

A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth the good. And an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth the evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

1 Corinthians 6:13

Meats for the belly and the belly for meats, but God shall destroy both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord is for the body.

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. So the tongue is set among our members, spotting all the body and inflaming the course of nature, and being inflamed by hell.