Matthew 15:17

The Passion Translation

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

Cross References

Matthew 15:16

Jesus said, “Even after all that I’ve taught you, you still remain clueless?

Matthew 15:18

But what comes out of your mouth reveals the core of your heart. Words can pollute, not food.

Mark 7:19

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.)

Luke 6:45

People are known in this same way. Out of the virtue stored in their hearts, good and upright people will produce good fruit. Likewise, out of the evil hidden in their hearts, evil ones will produce what is evil. For the overflow of what has been stored in your heart will be seen by your fruit and will be heard in your words.

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.

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire! It can be compared to the sum total of wickedness and is the most dangerous part of our human body. It corrupts the entire body and is a hellish flame! It releases a fire that can burn throughout the course of human existence.