Matthew 15:17

Tree of Life Version

“Don’t you grasp that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and then is ejected into the sewer?

Cross References

2 Kings 10:27

Then they demolished the pillar of Baal, tore down the temple of Baal and turned it into latrines—as it is to this day.

Matthew 15:16

“Are you also still lacking understanding?” Yeshua said.

Matthew 15:18

But the things that proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart, and those things make the man unholy.

Mark 7:19

For it does not enter into the heart but into the stomach, and then goes out into the sewer, cleansing all foods.”

Luke 6:45

“Out of the good treasure of his heart the good man brings forth good, and out of evil the evil man brings forth evil. For from the overflow of the heart his mouth speaks.”

1 Corinthians 6:13

“Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food”—but God will do away with both of them. Yet the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is a world of evil placed among our body parts. It pollutes the whole body and sets on fire the course of life—and is set on fire by Gehenna.