Matthew 15:10

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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  • Mark 7:14-15 : 14 Then he called the crowd again and said to them,“Listen to me, everyone, and understand. 15 There 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.”
  • Luke 20:45-47 : 45 Jesus Warns the Disciples against Pride As all the people were listening, Jesus said to his disciples, 46 “Beware of the experts in the law. They like walking around in long robes, and they love elaborate greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets. 47 They devour widows’ property, and as a show make long prayers. They will receive a more severe punishment.”
  • Luke 24:45 : 45 Then he opened their minds so they could understand the scriptures,
  • Eph 1:17 : 17 I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, will give you spiritual wisdom and revelation in your growing knowledge of him,
  • Col 1:9 : 9 Paul’s Prayer for the Growth of the Church For this reason we also, from the day we heard about you, have not ceased praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
  • Jas 1:5 : 5 But if anyone is deficient in wisdom, he should ask God, who gives to all generously and without reprimand, and it will be given to him.
  • 1 Kgs 22:28 : 28 Micaiah said,“If you really do safely return, then the LORD has not spoken through me.” Then he added,“Take note, all you people.”
  • Isa 6:9 : 9 He said,“Go and tell these people:‘Listen continually, but don’t understand! Look continually, but don’t perceive!’
  • Isa 55:3 : 3 Pay attention and come to me! Listen, so you can live! Then I will make an unconditional covenantal promise to you, just like the reliable covenantal promises I made to David.
  • Matt 13:19 : 19 When anyone hears the word about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches what was sown in his heart; this is the seed sown along the path.
  • Matt 24:15 : 15 The Abomination of Desolation“So when you see the abomination of desolation– spoken about by Daniel the prophet– standing in the holy place”(let the reader understand),

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Mark 7:13-15
    3 verses
    87%

    13Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like this.”

    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 15:11-12
    2 verses
    79%

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

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

  • Matt 15:7-9
    3 verses
    78%

    7Hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you when he said,

    8‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me,

    9and they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”

  • Matt 15:15-18
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    15But Peter said to him,“Explain this parable to us.”

    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.

  • Matt 11:15
    76%

    15The one who has ears had better listen!

  • Matt 23:1
    76%

    1Seven Woes Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples,

  • Matt 5:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    1The Beatitudes When he saw the crowds, he went up the mountain. After he sat down his disciples came to him.

    2Then he began to teach them by saying:

  • Matt 13:9-10
    2 verses
    75%

    9The one who has ears had better listen!”

    10Then the disciples came to him and said,“Why do you speak to them in parables?”

  • Mark 7:17-20
    4 verses
    75%

    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?

    19For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer.”(This means all foods are clean.)

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

  • Matt 15:1-3
    3 verses
    75%

    1Breaking Human Traditions Then Pharisees and experts in the law came from Jerusalem to Jesus and said,

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

    3He answered them,“And why do you disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?

  • Mark 8:21
    74%

    21Then he said to them,“Do you still not understand?”

  • Matt 15:20
    74%

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

  • Mark 4:9
    74%

    9And he said,“Whoever has ears to hear had better listen!”

  • Matt 13:13-15
    3 verses
    74%

    13For this reason I speak to them in parables: Although they see they do not see, and although they hear they do not hear nor do they understand.

    14And concerning them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says:‘You will listen carefully yet will never understand, you will look closely yet will never comprehend.

    15For the heart of this people has become dull; they are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’

  • Luke 14:25
    74%

    25Counting the Cost Now large crowds were accompanying Jesus, and turning to them he said,

  • Luke 20:45
    74%

    45Jesus Warns the Disciples against Pride As all the people were listening, Jesus said to his disciples,

  • Mark 7:7
    74%

    7They worship me in vain, teaching as doctrine the commandments of men.’

  • Matt 13:18
    73%

    18“So listen to the parable of the sower:

  • Isa 6:9
    73%

    9He said,“Go and tell these people:‘Listen continually, but don’t understand! Look continually, but don’t perceive!’

  • Matt 15:35
    73%

    35After instructing the crowd to sit down on the ground,

  • Mark 4:23
    72%

    23If anyone has ears to hear, he had better listen!”

  • Matt 16:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11How could you not understand that I was not speaking to you about bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!”

    12Then they understood that he had not told them to be on guard against the yeast in bread, but against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

  • Acts 28:26
    72%

    26when he said,‘Go to this people and say,“You will keep on hearing, but will never understand, and you will keep on looking, but will never perceive.

  • Luke 15:1
    72%

    1The Parable of the Lost Sheep and Coin Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming to hear him.

  • Luke 6:46
    72%

    46“Why do you call me‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do what I tell you?

  • Luke 15:3
    72%

    3So Jesus told them this parable:

  • Mark 4:2
    72%

    2He taught them many things in parables, and in his teaching said to them:

  • Mark 7:5
    71%

    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?”

  • Mark 2:13
    71%

    13The Call of Levi; Eating with Sinners Jesus went out again by the sea. The whole crowd came to him, and he taught them.

  • Mark 8:1
    71%

    1The Feeding of the Four Thousand In those days there was another large crowd with nothing to eat. So Jesus called his disciples and said to them,

  • Mark 8:18
    71%

    18Though you have eyes, don’t you see? And though you have ears, can’t you hear? Don’t you remember?