Surely you know that all the food that enters a person’s mouth goes into the stomach. Then that food goes out of the body.
Mark 7:19 - Easy To Read Version Food does not go into a person’s mind. Food goes into the stomach. Then that food goes out of the body.” (When Jesus said this, he meant that there is no food that is wrong for people to eat.) Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Since it does not reach and enter his heart but [only his] digestive tract, and so passes on [into the place designed to receive waste]? Thus He was making and declaring all foods [ceremonially] clean [that is, abolishing the ceremonial distinctions of the Levitical Law]. American Standard Version (1901) because it goeth not into his heart, but into his belly, and goeth out into the draught? This he said, making all meats clean. Common English Bible That’s because it doesn’t enter into the heart but into the stomach, and it goes out into the sewer.” By saying this, Jesus declared that no food could contaminate a person in God’s sight. Catholic Public Domain Version For it does not enter into his heart, but into the gut, and it exits into the sewer, purging all foods." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Because it entereth not into his heart, but goeth into the belly, and goeth out into the privy, purging all meats? |
Surely you know that all the food that enters a person’s mouth goes into the stomach. Then that food goes out of the body.
Jesus said, “You still have trouble understanding? Surely you know that nothing that enters a person from the outside can make him wrong.
So pay attention to what is inside. Give to the people that need help. Then you will be fully clean.
But the voice said to him again, “God has made these things clean (pure). Don’t call them ‘unholy’!”
But the voice from the sky answered again, ‘God has made these things clean (pure). Don’t call them unholy!’
“Food is for the stomach, and the stomach for food.” Yes. And God will destroy them both. But the body is not for sexual sin. The body is for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.
So don’t let any person make rules for you about eating and drinking or about Jewish customs (festivals, New Moon celebrations, {\cf2\super [12]} or Sabbath days {\cf2\super [13]}).