Mark 7:19

because it does not enter into his heart but into his stomach, and passes into the latrine, thus purifying all foods?”

English Majority Text (NT)

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

18So He said to them, “Are you also without understanding? Do you not understand that everything entering a man from outside cannot defile him,

20And He said, “That which comes out of a man, that defiles a man.

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Cross References

Matthew 15:17Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach, and is cast out into a latrine?

Acts 10:15And a voice spoke again the second time to him, “That which God has made clean, you must not make common.”

Romans 14:1Receive one that is weak in the faith, not for disputes over opinions.

Colossians 2:16Therefore do not let anyone judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or of a new moon or of 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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