Matthew 15:17

Weymouth NT

Do you not understand that whatever enters the mouth passes into the stomach and is afterwards ejected from the body?

Cross References

Matthew 15:16

»Are even you,« He answered, »still without intellingence?

Matthew 15:18

But the things that come out of the mouth proceed from the heart, and it is these that defile the man.

Mark 7:19

because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and passes away ejected from him?« By these words Jesus pronounced all kinds of food clean.

Luke 6:45

A good man from the good stored up in his heart brings out what is good; and an evil man from the evil stored up brings out what is evil; for from the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.

1 Corinthians 6:13

Food of all kinds is meant for the stomach, and the stomach is meant for food, and God will cause both of them to perish. Yet the body does not exist for the purpose of fornication, but for the Master's service, and the Master exists for the body;

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire. That world of iniquity, the tongue, is placed within us spotting and soiling our whole nature, and setting the whole round of our lives on fire, being itself set on fire by Gehenna.