Matthew 15:11

Weymouth NT

It is not what goes into a man's mouth that defiles him; but it is what comes out of his mouth–that defiles a man.«

Cross References

Matthew 15:10

Then, when He had called the people to Him, Jesus said, »Hear and understand.

Matthew 15:12

Then His disciples came and said to Him, »Do you know that the Pharisees were greatly shocked when they heard those words?«

Mark 7:15

There is nothing outside a man which entering him can make him unclean; but it is the things which come out of a man that make him unclean.«

Romans 14:14

As one who lives in union with the Lord Jesus, I know and am certain that in its own nature no food is `impure'; but if people regard any food as impure, to them it is.

Romans 14:17

For the Kingdom of God does not consist of eating and drinking, but of right conduct, peace and joy, through the Holy Spirit;

Romans 14:20

Do not for food's sake be throwing down God's work. All food is pure; but a man is in the wrong if his food is a snare to others.

1 Timothy 4:3

forbidding people to marry, and insisting on abstinence from foods which God has created to be partaken of, with thankfulness, by those who believe and have a clear knowledge of the truth.

Titus 1:15

To the pure everything is pure; but to the polluted and unbelieving nothing is pure, but on the contrary their very minds and consciences are polluted.

Hebrews 13:9

Do not be drawn aside by all sorts of strange teaching; for it is well to have the heart made stedfast through God's grace, and not by special kinds of food, from which those who scrupulously attend to them have derived no benefit.

2 Peter 2:18

For, while they pour out their frivolous and arrogant talk, they use earthly cravings –every kind of immorality– as a bait to entrap men who are just escaping from the influence of those who live in error.