Matthew 15:17

New English Translation

Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach and then passes out into the sewer?

Cross References

2 Kings 10:27

They demolished the sacred pillar of Baal and the temple of Baal; it is used as a latrine to this very day.

Matthew 15:16

Jesus said, “Even after all this, are you still so foolish?

Matthew 15:18

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

Mark 7:19

For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer.” (This means all foods are clean.)

Luke 6:45

The good person out of the good treasury of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasury produces evil, for his mouth speaks from what fills his heart.

1 Corinthians 6:13

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

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire! The tongue represents the world of wrongdoing among the parts of our bodies. It pollutes the entire body and sets fire to the course of human existence – and is set on fire by hell.