Matthew 15:18

The Text-Critical English New Testament

But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these defile a person.

Cross References

Matthew 12:34

You brood of vipers, how can you speak good things, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Matthew 15:11

It is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person; it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles a person.”

Matthew 15:17

Do you not yet understand that everything that goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled into the latrine?

Mark 7:20

He also said, “It is what comes out of a person that defiles a person.

Luke 19:22

The king said to him, ‘I will condemn yoʋ by the words coming out of yoʋr own mouth, yoʋ evil servant. Yoʋ knew, did yoʋ, that I was a stern man, taking out what I did not put in, and reaping what I did not sow?