Matthew 15:17

New International Version

“Don’t you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body?

Cross References

2 Kings 10:27

They demolished the sacred stone of Baal and tore down the temple of Baal, and people have used it for a latrine to this day.

Matthew 15:16

“Are you still so dull?” Jesus asked them.

Matthew 15:18

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

Mark 7:19

For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.)

Luke 6:45

A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

1 Corinthians 6:13

You say, “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will destroy them both.” The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

James 3:6

The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.