Mark 7:19

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer.”(This means all foods are clean.)

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 6:13 : 13 “Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both.” The body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
  • Acts 10:15 : 15 The voice spoke to him again, a second time,“What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!”
  • Acts 11:9 : 9 But the voice replied a second time from heaven,‘What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!’
  • Rom 14:1-9 : 1 Exhortation to Mutual Forbearance Now receive the one who is weak in the faith, and do not have disputes over differing opinions. 2 One person believes in eating everything, but the weak person eats only vegetables. 3 The one who eats everything must not despise the one who does not, and the one who abstains must not judge the one who eats everything, for God has accepted him. 4 Who are you to pass judgment on another’s servant? Before his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand. 5 One person regards one day holier than other days, and another regards them all alike. Each must be fully convinced in his own mind. 6 The one who observes the day does it for the Lord. The one who eats, eats for the Lord because he gives thanks to God, and the one who abstains from eating abstains for the Lord, and he gives thanks to God. 7 For none of us lives for himself and none dies for himself. 8 If we live, we live for the Lord; if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s. 9 For this reason Christ died and returned to life, so that he may be the Lord of both the dead and the living. 10 But you who eat vegetables only– why do you judge your brother or sister? And you who eat everything– why do you despise your brother or sister? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God. 11 For it is written,“As I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow to me, and every tongue will give praise to God.” 12 Therefore, each of us will give an account of himself to God.
  • Matt 15:17 : 17 Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach and then passes out into the sewer?
  • Luke 11:41 : 41 But give from your heart to those in need, and then everything will be clean for you.
  • Col 2:16 : 16 Therefore do not let anyone judge you with respect to food or drink, or in the matter of a feast, new moon, or Sabbath days–
  • Col 2:21-22 : 21 “Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!” 22 These are all destined to perish with use, founded as they are on human commands and teachings.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Mark 7:17-18
    2 verses
    91%

    17Now when Jesus had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about the parable.

    18He said to them,“Are you so foolish? Don’t you understand that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him?

  • Matt 15:16-20
    5 verses
    87%

    16Jesus said,“Even after all this, are you still so foolish?

    17Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach and then passes out into the sewer?

    18But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these things defile a person.

    19For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.

    20These are the things that defile a person; it is not eating with unwashed hands that defiles a person.”

  • Mark 7:20-21
    2 verses
    85%

    20He said,“What comes out of a person defiles him.

    21For from within, out of the human heart, come evil ideas, sexual immorality, theft, murder,

  • Mark 7:14-15
    2 verses
    84%

    14Then he called the crowd again and said to them,“Listen to me, everyone, and understand.

    15There is nothing outside of a person that can defile him by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles him.”

  • Matt 15:10-11
    2 verses
    83%

    10True Defilement Then he called the crowd to him and said,“Listen and understand.

    11What defiles a person is not what goes into the mouth; it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles a person.”

  • Mark 7:23
    76%

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

  • Rom 14:20
    76%

    20Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. For although all things are clean, it is wrong to cause anyone to stumble by what you eat.

  • Rom 14:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean in itself; still, it is unclean to the one who considers it unclean.

    15For if your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy by your food someone for whom Christ died.

  • Mark 7:2-5
    4 verses
    73%

    2And they saw that some of Jesus’ disciples ate their bread with unclean hands, that is, unwashed.

    3(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they perform a ritual washing, holding fast to the tradition of the elders.

    4And when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. They hold fast to many other traditions: the washing of cups, pots, kettles, and dining couches.)

    5The Pharisees and the experts in the law asked him,“Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with unwashed hands?”

  • Lev 7:19-20
    2 verses
    72%

    19The meat which touches anything ceremonially unclean must not be eaten; it must be burned up in the fire. As for ceremonially clean meat, everyone who is ceremonially clean may eat the meat.

    20The person who eats meat from the peace offering sacrifice which belongs to the LORD while his uncleanness persists will be cut off from his people.

  • Acts 11:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8But I said,‘Certainly not, Lord, for nothing defiled or ritually unclean has ever entered my mouth!’

    9But the voice replied a second time from heaven,‘What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!’

  • Luke 11:41
    72%

    41But give from your heart to those in need, and then everything will be clean for you.

  • Titus 1:15
    72%

    15All is pure to those who are pure. But to those who are corrupt and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their minds and consciences are corrupted.

  • Lev 11:34
    71%

    34Any food that may be eaten which becomes soaked with water will become unclean. Anything drinkable in any such vessel will become unclean.

  • Luke 11:39
    71%

    39But the Lord said to him,“Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.

  • Prov 23:7
    70%

    7for he is like someone who has calculated the cost in his mind.“Eat and drink,” he says to you, but his heart is not with you;

  • Lev 11:47
    70%

    47to distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between the living creatures that may be eaten and the living creatures that must not be eaten.’”

  • 1 Cor 6:13
    70%

    13“Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both.” The body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

  • Isa 28:8
    70%

    8Indeed, all the tables are covered with vomit, with filth, leaving no clean place.

  • Lev 11:7
    70%

    7The pig is unclean to you because its hoof is divided(the hoof is completely split in two), even though it does not chew the cud.

  • 1 Cor 10:25
    69%

    25Eat anything that is sold in the marketplace without questions of conscience,

  • Acts 10:14-15
    2 verses
    69%

    14But Peter said,“Certainly not, Lord, for I have never eaten anything defiled and ritually unclean!”

    15The voice spoke to him again, a second time,“What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!”

  • Matt 23:26
    69%

    26Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside may become clean too!

  • 1 Cor 8:7-8
    2 verses
    69%

    7But this knowledge is not shared by all. And some, by being accustomed to idols in former times, eat this food as an idol sacrifice, and their conscience, because it is weak, is defiled.

    8Now food will not bring us close to God. We are no worse if we do not eat and no better if we do.

  • Deut 14:8
    69%

    8Also the pig is ritually impure to you; though it has divided hooves, it does not chew the cud. You may not eat their meat or even touch their remains.

  • Lev 11:40
    69%

    40One who eats from its carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening, and whoever carries its carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.

  • Matt 15:2
    69%

    2“Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat.”

  • Ezek 4:13-14
    2 verses
    68%

    13And the LORD said,“This is how the people of Israel will eat their unclean food among the nations where I will banish them.”

    14And I said,“Ah, Sovereign LORD, I have never been ceremonially defiled before. I have never eaten a carcass or an animal torn by wild beasts; from my youth up, unclean meat has never entered my mouth.”

  • Heb 13:9
    68%

    9Do not be carried away by all sorts of strange teachings. For it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not ritual meals, which have never benefited those who participated in them.

  • Rom 14:3
    68%

    3The one who eats everything must not despise the one who does not, and the one who abstains must not judge the one who eats everything, for God has accepted him.

  • 1 Cor 10:27
    68%

    27If an unbeliever invites you to dinner and you want to go, eat whatever is served without asking questions of conscience.