Matthew 15:17

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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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.
  • 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.
  • Jas 3:6 : 6 And the tongue is a fire! The tongue represents the world of wrongdoing among the parts of our bodies. It pollutes the entire body and sets fire to the course of human existence– and is set on fire by hell.
  • 2 Kgs 10:27 : 27 They demolished the sacred pillar of Baal and the temple of Baal; it is used as a latrine to this very 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 fruit.
  • Luke 6:45 : 45 The good person out of the good treasury of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasury produces evil, for his mouth speaks from what fills his heart.

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  • Mark 7:17-20
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    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 15:10-12
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    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.”

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

  • Matt 15:18-20
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    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.”

  • Matt 15:16
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    16Jesus said,“Even after all this, are you still so foolish?

  • Mark 7:14-15
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    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.”

  • Mark 8:17-18
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    17When he learned of this, Jesus said to them,“Why are you arguing about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Have your hearts been hardened?

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

  • Mark 7:23
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    23All these evils come from within and defile a person.”

  • Matt 16:11-12
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    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.

  • Luke 11:39-41
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    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.

    40You fools! Didn’t the one who made the outside make the inside as well?

    41But give from your heart to those in need, and then 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 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;

    8you will vomit up the little bit you have eaten, and will have wasted your pleasant words.

  • Matt 15:2
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    2“Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat.”

  • John 4:32-33
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    32But he said to them,“I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”

    33So the disciples began to say to one another,“No one brought him anything to eat, did they?”

  • Matt 7:6
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    6Do not give what is holy to dogs or throw your pearls before pigs; otherwise they will trample them under their feet and turn around and tear you to pieces.

  • Rom 14:20
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    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.

  • Luke 10:8
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    8Whenever you enter a town and the people welcome you, eat what is set before you.

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

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

  • John 6:61
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    61When Jesus was aware that his disciples were complaining about this, he said to them,“Does this cause you to be offended?

  • Luke 6:45
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    45The good person out of the good treasury of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasury produces evil, for his mouth speaks from what fills his heart.

  • Matt 12:34
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    34Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say anything good, since you are evil? For the mouth speaks from what fills the heart.

  • 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 took up?

  • Isa 28:8
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    8Indeed, all the tables are covered with vomit, with filth, leaving no clean place.

  • 1 Cor 10:25
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    25Eat anything that is sold in the marketplace without questions of conscience,

  • Mark 7:5
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    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 4:13
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    13He said to them,“Don’t you understand this parable? Then how will you understand any parable?

  • Matt 13:14
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    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.

  • Luke 16:15
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    15But Jesus said to them,“You are the ones who justify yourselves in men’s eyes, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly prized among men is utterly detestable in God’s sight.

  • Matt 13:51
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    51“Have you understood all these things?” They replied,“Yes.”

  • Job 20:15
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    15The wealth that he consumed he vomits up, God will make him throw it out of his stomach.

  • Acts 11:8
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    8But I said,‘Certainly not, Lord, for nothing defiled or ritually unclean has ever entered my mouth!’

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

  • Jas 3:10
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    10From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. These things should not be so, my brothers and sisters.

  • 1 Cor 6:13
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    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.