Matthew 15:11

Authorized King James Version (1611)

‹Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.›

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Οὐ τὸ εἰσερχόμενον εἰς τὸ στόμα κοινοῖ τὸν ἄνθρωπον· ἀλλὰ τὸ ἐκπορευόμενον ἐκ τοῦ στόματος, τοῦτο κοινοῖ τὸν ἄνθρωπον.

Transliteration

Not the [thing] eiserchomenon into the stoma koinoi the anthrōpon; but the [thing] ekporeuomenon out of the stomatos, this koinoi the anthrōpon.

Grammar Details

• *Ou*: negative particle - not
• *to eiserchomenon*: present participle, nominative, neuter, singular - the thing entering
• *eis*: preposition + accusative - into
• *to stoma*: accusative, neuter, singular - the mouth
• *koinoi*: present, indicative, active, 3rd person singular - defiles
• *ton anthrōpon*: accusative, masculine, singular - the man/person
• *alla*: strong adversative conjunction - but
• *to ekporeuomenon*: present participle, nominative, neuter, singular - the thing proceeding
• *ek*: preposition + genitive - out of
• *tou stomatos*: genitive, neuter, singular - the mouth
• *touto*: demonstrative pronoun, nominative, neuter, singular - this

Word Meanings

• *eiserchomenon*: entering/going into
• *stoma*: mouth/speech
• *koinoi*: defiles/makes common/makes unclean
• *anthrōpon*: man/person/human
• *ekporeuomenon*: proceeding/coming out/going forth

Referenced Verses

• Acts 10:14-15 : 14 But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean. 15 And the voice [spake] unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, [that] call not thou common.
• Mark 7:15 : 15 ‹There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.›
• Rom 14:14 : 14 I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that [there is] nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him [it is] unclean.
• Rom 14:17 : 17 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
• Luke 11:38-41 : 38 And when the Pharisee saw [it], he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner. 39 And the Lord said unto him, ‹Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.› 40 [Ye] ‹fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?› 41 ‹But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you.›
• Matt 12:34-37 : 34 ‹O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.› 35 ‹A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.› 36 ‹But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.› 37 ‹For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.›
• Matt 15:18-20 : 18 ‹But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.› 19 ‹For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:› 20 ‹These are› [the things] ‹which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.›
• Ps 10:7 : 7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue [is] mischief and vanity.
• Ps 12:2 : 2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: [with] flattering lips [and] with a double heart do they speak.
• Ps 52:2-4 : 2 Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. 3 Thou lovest evil more than good; [and] lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah. 4 Thou lovest all devouring words, O [thou] deceitful tongue.
• Ps 58:3-4 : 3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. 4 Their poison [is] like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder [that] stoppeth her ear;
• Jas 3:5-8 : 5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! 6 And the tongue [is] a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. 7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: 8 But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
• 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 For when they speak great swelling [words] of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, [through much] wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
• Acts 11:8-9 : 8 But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth. 9 But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath cleansed, [that] call not thou common.
• Rom 3:13-14 : 13 Their throat [is] an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps [is] under their lips: 14 Whose mouth [is] full of cursing and bitterness:
• Isa 37:23 : 23 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted [thy] voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? [even] against the Holy One of Israel.
• Isa 59:3-5 : 3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. 4 None calleth for justice, nor [any] pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. 5 They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
• Isa 59:13-15 : 13 In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. 14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. 15 Yea, truth faileth; and he [that] departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw [it], and it displeased him that [there was] no judgment.
• Jer 9:3-6 : 3 And they bend their tongues [like] their bow [for] lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD. 4 Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders. 5 And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, [and] weary themselves to commit iniquity. 6 Thine habitation [is] in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
• Rom 14:20 : 20 For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed [are] pure; but [it is] evil for that man who eateth with offence.
• 1 Tim 4:4-5 : 4 For every creature of God [is] good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: 5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
• Titus 1:15 : 15 Unto the pure all things [are] pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving [is] nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
• Heb 13:9 : 9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For [it is] a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.