Matthew 15:17

New Living Translation

“Anything you eat passes through the stomach and then goes into the sewer.

Cross References

2 Kings 10:27

They smashed the sacred pillar and wrecked the temple of Baal, converting it into a public toilet, as it remains to this day.

Matthew 15:16

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

Matthew 15:18

But the words you speak come from the heart—that’s what defiles you.

Mark 7:19

Food doesn’t go into your heart, but only passes through the stomach and then goes into the sewer.” (By saying this, he declared that every kind of food is acceptable in God’s eyes.)

Luke 6:45

A good person produces good things from the treasury of a good heart, and an evil person produces evil things from the treasury of an evil heart. What you say flows from what is in your heart.

1 Corinthians 6:13

You say, “Food was made for the stomach, and the stomach for food.” (This is true, though someday God will do away with both of them.) But you can’t say that our bodies were made for sexual immorality. They were made for the Lord, and the Lord cares about our bodies.

James 3:6

And among all the parts of the body, the tongue is a flame of fire. It is a whole world of wickedness, corrupting your entire body. It can set your whole life on fire, for it is set on fire by hell itself.