Matthew 15:17
Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is expelled into the sewer?
Family 35 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
16So Jesus said: “Are you also still without understanding?
Cross References
Matthew 7:19So every tree not producing good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
1 Corinthians 6:13Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods, but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
James 3:6And the tongue is a fire! The organization of wickedness, that is how the tongue is placed among our members, defiling the whole body and setting on fire the course of life, itself 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 →