Matthew 15:17

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Don’t you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then is expelled into the latrine?

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  • 1 Cor 6:13 : 13 Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food, but God will destroy both one and the other. The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
  • Col 2:21-22 : 21 "Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle"— 22 which all perish as they are used—based on human commands and teachings.
  • Jas 3:6 : 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting the entire course of life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.
  • 2 Kgs 10:27 : 27 They also tore down the sacred pillar of Baal, demolished the temple of Baal, and turned it into a latrine, which it remains to this day.
  • Matt 7:19-20 : 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 So then, you will recognize them by their fruits.
  • Luke 6:45 : 45 A good person brings good things out of the good stored up in their heart, and an evil person brings evil things out of the evil stored up in their heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

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  • Mark 7:14-20
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    87%

    14Then He called the crowd to Him and said, "Listen to Me, all of you, and understand:

    15There is nothing outside a person that can defile him by going into him, but the things that come out of him are what defile him.

    16If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear."

    17When He went into the house away from the crowd, His disciples asked Him about the parable.

    18And He said to them, "Are you also without understanding? Do you not realize that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him?

    19For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then it goes out into the latrine." (In saying this, He declared all foods clean.)

    20And He continued, "What comes out of a person is what defiles him.

  • Matt 15:10-12
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    85%

    10Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen and understand:

    11What goes into someone’s mouth does not defile them, but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them.”

    12Then the disciples came to him and told him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this?”

  • Matt 15:18-20
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    18But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these defile a person.

    19For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, and slanders.

    20These are the things that defile a person, but eating with unwashed hands does not defile them.”

  • Matt 15:16
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    16Jesus replied, “Are you still without understanding?”

  • Mark 8:17-18
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    73%

    17Aware of this, Jesus said to them, 'Why are you discussing the fact that you have no bread? Do you still not understand or comprehend? Are your hearts hardened?'

    18Do you have eyes and not see, and ears and not hear? And do you not remember?

  • Mark 7:23
    72%

    23All these evils come from within and defile a person.

  • Matt 16:11-12
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    72%

    11How is it that you do not understand that I was not talking to you about bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees."

    12Then they understood that He was not telling them to beware of the yeast used in bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

  • Luke 11:39-41
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    71%

    39Then the Lord said to him, 'Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.

    40You fools! Did not the one who made the outside also make the inside?

    41But now as for what is inside you—be generous to the poor, and everything will be clean for you.'

  • Mark 8:21
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    21Then he said to them, 'Do you still not understand?'

  • Prov 23:7-8
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    7For as he thinks within himself, so is he. He says to you, 'Eat and drink,' but his heart is not with you.

    8You will vomit up the morsel you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.

  • Matt 15:2
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    2“Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands before they eat.”

  • John 4:32-33
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    32But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you do not know about."

    33So the disciples said to one another, "Could someone have brought him something to eat?"

  • Matt 7:6
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    6Do not give what is holy to dogs, nor cast your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to tear you to pieces.

  • Rom 14:20
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    20Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All things are indeed clean, but it is wrong for a person to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble.

  • Luke 10:8
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    8When you enter a town and they welcome you, eat what is set before you.

  • Matt 23:26
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    26Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the dish, so that the outside may also become clean.

  • Matt 17:21
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    21'However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.'

  • John 6:53
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    53Jesus said to them, 'Truly, truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.'

  • John 6:61
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    61Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to them, 'Does this offend you?'

  • Luke 6:45
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    45A good person brings good things out of the good stored up in their heart, and an evil person brings evil things out of the evil stored up in their heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

  • Matt 12:34
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    34You brood of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

  • Matt 16:9
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    9Do you still not understand? Don't you remember the five loaves for the five thousand and how many baskets you gathered?

  • Isa 28:8
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    8All the tables are full of vomit and filth; there is no clean place left.

  • 1 Cor 10:25
    68%

    25Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience.

  • Mark 7:5
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    5So the Pharisees and the scribes questioned Him, "Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with unwashed hands?"

  • Mark 4:13
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    13He said to them, "Don’t you understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables?

  • Matt 13:14
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    14In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah that says: 'You will indeed hear but never understand; you will indeed see but never perceive.'

  • Luke 16:15
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    15Jesus said to them, "You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of others, but God knows your hearts. What people value highly is detestable in God’s sight."

  • Matt 13:51
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    51Jesus said to them, "Have you understood all these things?" They said to him, "Yes, Lord."

  • Job 20:15
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    15He swallows wealth but vomits it out; God drives it out of his stomach.

  • Acts 11:8
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    8But I said, ‘Surely not, Lord! Nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’

  • Prov 15:14
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    14The discerning heart seeks knowledge, but the mouth of fools feeds on folly.

  • Jas 3:10
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    10Out of the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things should not be this way.

  • 1 Cor 6:13
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    13Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food, but God will destroy both one and the other. The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.