Matthew 15:17
perceave ye not that what soever goeth in at the mouth descendeth doune in to the bely and is cast out into the draught?
Tyndale New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
16Then sayde Iesus: are ye yet with oute vnderstondinge?
18But those thingis which procede out of the mouth come from the herte and they defyle the man.
Cross References
Matthew 7:19Every tree that bryngethe not forthe good frute shalbe hewe doune and cast into the fyre.
1 Corinthians 6:13Meates are ordeyned for the belly and the belly for meates: but God shall destroy bothe it and them. Let not the body be applied vnto fornicacion but vnto the Lorde and the Lorde vnto the body.
James 3:6and the tonge is fyre and a worlde of wyckednes. So is the tonge set amonge oure members that it defileth the whole body and setteth a fyre all that we have of nature and is it selfe set a fyre even of 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 →