Matthew 15:18

New International Version

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

Cross References

Proverbs 15:28

The heart of the righteous weighs its answers, but the mouth of the wicked gushes evil.

Matthew 12:34

You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

Matthew 15:11

What goes into someone’s mouth does not defile them, but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them.”

Proverbs 15:2

The tongue of the wise adorns knowledge, but the mouth of the fool gushes folly.

Proverbs 10:32

The lips of the righteous know what finds favor, but the mouth of the wicked only what is perverse.

Proverbs 6:12

A troublemaker and a villain, who goes about with a corrupt mouth,

Luke 19:22

“His master replied, ‘I will judge you by your own words, you wicked servant! You knew, did you, that I am a hard man, taking out what I did not put in, and reaping what I did not sow?

Psalm 36:3

The words of their mouths are wicked and deceitful; they fail to act wisely or do good.

1 Samuel 24:13

As the old saying goes, ‘From evildoers come evil deeds,’ so my hand will not touch you.

Proverbs 4:23

Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.

Matthew 15:17

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

Mark 7:20

He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them.