Matthew 15:17

New American Bible - revised edition

Do you not realize that everything that enters the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled into the latrine?

Cross References

2 Kings 10:27

tore down the pillar of Baal, tore down the temple of Baal, and turned it into a latrine, as it remains today.

Matthew 15:16

He said to them, “Are even you still without understanding?

Matthew 15:18

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

Mark 7:19

since it enters not the heart but the stomach and passes out into the latrine?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.)

Luke 6:45

A good person out of the store of goodness in his heart produces good, but an evil person out of a store of evil produces evil; for from the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks. The Two Foundations.

1 Corinthians 6:13

“Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will do away with both the one and the other. The body, however, is not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body;

James 3:6

The tongue is also a fire. It exists among our members as a world of malice, defiling the whole body and setting the entire course of our lives on fire, itself set on fire by Gehenna.