Matthew 15:17
Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth passes into the belly, and is cast out into the sink?
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
16Jesus replied: Are you also yet without understanding?
18But those things which go out from the mouth, come from the heart; and these defile the man.
Cross References
Matthew 7:19Every tree that does not produce goodly fruit, is cut down and thrown into the fire.
1 Corinthians 6:13Meats for the stomach, and the stomach for meats; but God will destroy both it and them. But the body is not for lewdness, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body:
James 3:6And the tongue is a fire, the world of iniquity. So is the tongue placed among our members, defiling the whole body, setting on fire the course of life, and being set on fire by hell.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 15:11-21
What Defileth a Man. 10 And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand: 11 Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man. 12 Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying? 13 But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up. 14 Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead… Read the whole commentary →