Matthew 15:18

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

Proverbs 15:28

The heart of the just ponders a response, but the mouth of the wicked spews evil.

Matthew 12:34

You brood of vipers, how can you say good things when you are evil? For from the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

Matthew 15:11

It is not what enters one’s mouth that defiles that person; but what comes out of the mouth is what defiles one.”

Proverbs 15:2

The tongue of the wise pours out knowledge, but the mouth of fools spews folly.

Proverbs 10:32

The lips of the just know favor, but the mouth of the wicked, perversion.

Proverbs 6:12

Scoundrels, villains, are they who deal in crooked talk.

Luke 19:22

He said to him, ‘With your own words I shall condemn you, you wicked servant. You knew I was a demanding person, taking up what I did not lay down and harvesting what I did not plant;

Psalm 36:3

For he lives with the delusion: his guilt will not be known and hated.

1 Samuel 24:13

May the Lord judge between me and you. May the Lord exact justice from you in my case. I shall not lay a hand on you.

Proverbs 4:23

With all vigilance guard your heart, for in it are the sources of life.

Matthew 15:17

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

Mark 7:20

“But what comes out of a person, that is what defiles.