Mark 7:19

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since it enters, not the heart but the stomach, and goes out into the sewer?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.)

Cross References

Matthew 15:17

Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach, and goes out into the sewer?

Mark 7:18

He said to them, “Then do you also fail to understand? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile,

Luke 11:41

So give for alms those things that are within; and see, everything will be clean for you.

Acts 10:15

The voice said to him again, a second time, “What God has made clean, you must not call profane.”

Acts 11:9

But a second time the voice answered from heaven, ‘What God has made clean, you must not call profane.’

1 Corinthians 6:13

“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food,” and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is meant not for fornication but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Colossians 2:16

Therefore do not let anyone condemn you in matters of food and drink or of observing festivals, new moons, or sabbaths.