Mark 7:19

The Passion Translation

For the food you swallow doesn’t enter your heart, but goes into your stomach, only to pass out into the sewer.” (This means all foods are clean.)

Cross References

Matthew 15:17

Is it hard to understand that whatever you eat enters the stomach only to pass out into the sewer?

1 Corinthians 6:13

Some have said, “I eat to live and I live to eat!” But God will do away with it all. The body was not created for illicit sex, but to serve and worship our Lord Jesus, who can fill the body with himself.

Acts 11:9

“The voice spoke to me again, saying, ‘Nothing is unclean if God declares it to be clean.’

Acts 10:15

The voice spoke again. “Nothing is unclean if God declares it to be clean.”

Luke 11:41

If you free your heart of greed, show compassion and true generosity to the poor, you will have more than clean hands; you will be clean within.

Colossians 2:16

So why would you allow anyone to judge you because of what you eat or drink, or insist that you keep the feasts, observe new moon celebrations, or the Sabbath?

Mark 7:18

He answered them, “Are you as dull as the rest? Don’t you understand that you are not defiled by what you eat?