Matthew 15:17

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach, and so passes on?

Cross References

2 Kings 10:27

And they demolished the pillar of Baal, and demolished the house of Baal, and made it a latrine to this day.

Matthew 15:16

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

Matthew 15:18

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

Mark 7:19

since it enters, not his heart but his stomach, and so passes on?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.)

Luke 6:45

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil man out of his evil treasure produces evil; for out of the abundance of the heart his 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 not meant for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is an unrighteous world among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the cycle of nature, and set on fire by hell.