Matthew 15:17

New International Reader's Version

“Don’t you see? Everything that enters the mouth goes into the stomach. Then it goes out of the body.

Cross References

2 Kings 10:27

So they destroyed Baal’s sacred stone. They also tore down Baal’s temple. People have used it as a public toilet to this day.

Matthew 15:16

“Don’t you understand yet?” Jesus asked them.

Matthew 15:18

But the things that come out of a person’s mouth come from the heart. Those are the things that make someone ‘unclean.’

Mark 7:19

It doesn’t go into their heart. It goes into their stomach. Then it goes out of the body.” In saying this, Jesus was calling all foods “clean.”

Luke 6:45

A good man says good things. These come from the good that is stored up in his heart. An evil man says evil things. These come from the evil that is stored up in his heart. A person’s mouth says everything that is in their heart.

1 Corinthians 6:13

Some of you say, “Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food. And God will destroy both of them.” But the body is not meant for sexual sins. The body is meant for the Lord. And the Lord is meant for the body.

James 3:6

The tongue is also a fire. The tongue is the most evil part of the body. It makes the whole body impure. It sets a person’s whole way of life on fire. And the tongue itself is set on fire by hell.