Matthew 15:17
Good News Translation
Don't you understand? Anything that goes into your mouth goes into your stomach and then on out of your body.

New Revised Standard Version
Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach, and goes out into the sewer?

Contemporary English Version
Don't you know that the food you put into your mouth goes into your stomach and then out of your body?

New American Bible
Do you not realize that everything that enters the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled into the latrine?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Do you not understand, that whatsoever entereth into the mouth, goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the privy?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

that.

Matthew 7:19,20 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit, shall be cut down, and shall be cast into the fire. . . .

Luke 6:45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth that which is evil. For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

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. . . .

James 3:6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is placed among our members, which defileth the whole body and inflameth the wheel of our nativity, being set on fire by hell.

and is.

2 Kings 10:27 And broke it in pieces. They destroyed also the temple of Baal, and made a jakes in its place unto this day.

Context
What Defiles a Man
16But he said: Are you also yet without understanding? 17Do you not understand, that whatsoever entereth into the mouth, goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the privy? 18But the things which proceed out of the mouth, come forth from the heart, and those things defile a man.…
Cross References
Matthew 15:16
But he said: Are you also yet without understanding?

Matthew 15:18
But the things which proceed out of the mouth, come forth from the heart, and those things defile a man.

Mark 7:19
Because it entereth not into his heart but goeth into his belly and goeth out into the privy, purging all meats?

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.

Matthew 15:16
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