◄ Mark 7:19 ►
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Good News Translation
because it does not go into your heart but into your stomach and then goes on out of the body." (In saying this, Jesus declared that all foods are fit to be eaten.)

New Revised Standard Version
since it enters, not the heart but the stomach, and goes out into the sewer?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.)

Contemporary English Version
It doesn't go into your heart, but into your stomach, and then out of your body." By saying this, Jesus meant that all foods were fit to eat.

New American Bible
since it enters not the heart but the stomach and passes out into the latrine?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.)

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because it entereth not into his heart but goeth into his belly and goeth out into the privy, purging all meats?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Because it entereth not into his heart but goeth into his belly and goeth out into the privy, purging all meats?

Matthew 15:17 Do you not understand, that whatsoever entereth into the mouth, goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the privy?

1 Corinthians 6:13 Meat for the belly and the belly for the meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord: and the Lord for the body.

Colossians 2:21,22 Touch not: taste not: handle not. . . .

Context
What Defiles a Man
…18And he saith to them: So are you also without knowledge? Understand you not that every thing from without entering into a man cannot defile him: 19Because it entereth not into his heart but goeth into his belly and goeth out into the privy, purging all meats? 20But he said that the things which come out from a man, they defile a man.…
Cross References
Matthew 15:17
Do you not understand, that whatsoever entereth into the mouth, goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the privy?

Mark 7:18
And he saith to them: So are you also without knowledge? Understand you not that every thing from without entering into a man cannot defile him:

Luke 11:41
But yet that which remaineth, give alms: and behold, all things are clean unto you.

Acts 10:15
And the voice spoke to him again the second time: That which God hath cleansed, do not thou call common.

Acts 11:9
And the voice answered again from heaven: What God hath made clean, do not thou call common.

Romans 14:1
Now him that is weak in faith, take unto you: not in disputes about thoughts.

Colossians 2:16
Let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink or in respect of a festival day or of the new moon or of the sabbaths,

Mark 7:18
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