Mark 7:19

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

Because it does not pass into his heart, but into his stomach, and is afterwards got rid of?--in saying this Jesus pronounced all food 'clean.'

Cross References

Matthew 15:17

"Do not you see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach, and is afterwards expelled?

Mark 7:18

"What, do even you understand so little?" exclaimed Jesus. "Do not you see that there is nothing external to a man, which by going into a man, can 'defile' him,

Luke 11:41

Only give away what is in them in charity, and at once you have the whole clean.

Acts 10:15

Again he was aware of a voice which said--"What God has pronounced 'clean', do not regard as 'defiled'."

Acts 11:9

Then a second time there came a voice from the heavens. "What God has pronounced 'clean'," it said, "you must not call 'defiled'."

1 Corinthians 6:13

Food exists for the stomach, and the stomach for food; but God will put an end to both the one and the other. The body, however, exists, not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

Colossians 2:16

Do not, then, allow any one to take you to task on questions of eating or drinking, or in the matter of annual or monthly or weekly festivals.