Mark 7:19

because it doesn't go into his heart, but into his stomach, which then expels the impure aspects of the food?”

Family 35 New Testament

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: “Can you really be without understanding? Don't you perceive that nothing that enters a man from outside can defile him,

20He went on to say: “That which comes out of a man, that is what defiles him.

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Cross References

Matthew 15:17Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is expelled into the sewer?

Acts 10:15So the voice came to him a second time, “What (pl) God has made clean you must not call ‘common’!”

Romans 14:1Receive someone who is weak in the faith, but not for disputes over arguables.

Colossians 2:16So do not let anyone judge you about food or drink, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon 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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