Matthew 15:17

New American Standard Bible 2020

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

Cross References

2 Kings 10:27

They also tore down the memorial stone of Baal and tore down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine as it is to this day.

Matthew 15:16

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

Matthew 15:18

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

Mark 7:19

because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and is eliminated?” (Thereby He declared all foods clean.)

Luke 6:45

The good person out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth what is good; and the evil person out of the evil treasure brings forth what is evil; for his mouth speaks from that which fills his heart.

1 Corinthians 6:13

Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, however God will do away with both of them. But 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 body’s parts as that which defiles the whole body and sets on fire the course of our life, and is set on fire by hell.