Matthew 15:17
Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly and then out of the body?
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
In Context
16So Jesus said, “Do you also still not understand?
18But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man.
Cross References
Matthew 7:19Every tree that doesn’t grow good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
1 Corinthians 6:13“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
James 3:6And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.
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 →