Matthew 15:17
Know you not that whatsoever entereth the mouth, goeth into the belly, and from thence in purification it is cast without?
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
In Context
16But he said to them, Do you also not yet understand?
Cross References
Matthew 7:19Every tree that maketh not good fruits is cut down, and falleth into the fire.
1 Corinthians 6:13Food is for the belly, and the belly for food; but Aloha will abolish them both. But the body was not for fornication, but for our Lord, and our Lord for the body.
James 3:6and the tongue is a fire, a world of sin, like a forest is the tongue itself among our members; it defileth all of our body, and burneth the course of our generations which run (forward) as a wheel, and kindleth also itself with fire.
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 →