Matthew 15:17

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

2 Kings 10:27

Then they demolished the pillar of Baal and destroyed the temple of Baal and made it a latrine to this day.

Matthew 15:16

Then he said, “Are you also still without understanding?

Matthew 15:18

But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this is what defiles.

Mark 7:19

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

Luke 6:45

The good person out of the good treasure of the heart produces good, and the evil person out of evil treasure produces evil, for it is out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaks.

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 sexual immorality but for the Lord and the Lord for the body.

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is placed among our members as a world of iniquity; it stains the whole body, sets on fire the cycle of life, and is itself set on fire by hell.