Mark 7:19

Because it goes not into the heart but into the stomach, and goes out with the waste? He said this, making all food clean.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?

In Context

18And he said to them, Have even you so little wisdom? Do you not see that whatever goes into a man from outside is not able to make him unclean,

20And he said, That which comes out of the man, that makes the man unclean.

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Cross References

Matthew 15:17Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth goes on into the stomach, and is sent out as waste?

Acts 10:15And the voice came to him a second time, What God has made clean, do not you make common.

Romans 14:1Do not put on one side him who is feeble in faith, and do not put him in doubt by your reasonings.

Colossians 2:16For this reason let no man be your judge in any question of food or drink or feast days or new moons or Sabbaths:

Matthew Henry on Mark 7:2-24

The Traditions of the Elders; The Worst Defilement from Within. 1 Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem. 2 And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault. 3 For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders. 4 And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they… Read the whole commentary →

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