Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled?
Mark 7:19 - English Standard Version 2016 since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.) 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? |
Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled?
And he said to them, “Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him,
But give as alms those things that are within, and behold, everything is clean for you.
And the voice came to him again a second time, “What God has made clean, do not call common.”
But the voice answered a second time from heaven, ‘What God has made clean, do not call common.’
“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath.