Matthew 15:11
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“A man is not defiled by what enters his mouth, but by what comes out of it.””
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“A man is not defiled by what enters his mouth, but by what comes out of it.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Not that which entereth into the mouth defileth the man; but that which proceedeth out of the mouth, this defileth the man.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“not that which is coming into the mouth doth defile the man, but that which is coming forth from the mouth, this defileth the man.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Matthew 15:11 — 23 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 10:7His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue.
- Psalms 12:2They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and a double heart.
- Psalms 52:2Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
- Psalms 58:3The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth.
- Isaiah 37:23Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!
- Isaiah 59:3For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice.
- Isaiah 59:13rebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies from the heart.
- Jeremiah 9:3“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.
- Matthew 12:34You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.
- Matthew 15:18But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these things defile a man.
- Mark 7:15Nothing that enters a man from the outside can defile him; but the things that come out of a man, these are what defile him.”
- Luke 11:38But the Pharisee was surprised to see that Jesus did not first wash before the meal.
- Acts 10:14“No, Lord!” Peter answered. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.”
- Acts 11:8‘No, Lord,’ I said, ‘for nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’
- Romans 3:13“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”
- Romans 14:14I am convinced and fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean.
- Romans 14:17For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
- Romans 14:20Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to let his eating be a stumbling block.
- 1 Timothy 4:4For every creation of God is good, and nothing that is received with thanksgiving should be rejected,
- Titus 1:15To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled.
- Hebrews 13:9Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace and not by foods of no value to those devoted to them.
- James 3:5In the same way, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it boasts of great things. Consider how small a spark sets a great forest ablaze.
- 2 Peter 2:18With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).