Matthew 15:11
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Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man: but what cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.

that which goeth.

Mark 7:15 There is nothing from without a man that entering into him can defile him. But the things which come from a man, those are they that defile a man.

Luke 11:38-41 And the Pharisee began to say, thinking within himself, why he was not washed before dinner. . . .

Acts 10:14,15 But Peter said: Far be it from me. For I never did eat any thing that is common and unclean. . . .

Acts 11:8,9 And I said: Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath ever entered into my mouth. . . .

Romans 14:14,17,20 I know, and am confident in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean. . . .

1 Timothy 4:4,5 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be rejected that is received with thanksgiving: . . .

Titus 1:15 All things are clean to the clean: but to them that are defiled and to unbelievers, nothing is clean: but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

Hebrews 13:9 Be not led away with various and strange doctrines. For it is best that the heart be established with grace, not with meats: which have not profited those that walk in them.

but.

Matthew 15:18-20 But the things which proceed out of the mouth, come forth from the heart, and those things defile a man. . . .

Matthew 12:34-37 O generation of vipers, how can you speak good things, whereas you are evil? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. . . .

Psalm 10:7 His mouth is full of cursing, and of bitterness, and of deceit: under his tongue are labor and sorrow.

Psalm 12:2 They have spoken vain things, every one to his neighbour: with deceitful lips, and with a double heart have they spoken.

Psalm 52:2-4 All the day long thy tongue hath devised injustice: as a sharp razor, thou hast wrought deceit. . . .

Psalm 58:3,4 The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from the womb: they have spoken false things. . . .

Isaiah 37:23 Whom hast thou reproached, and whom hast thou blasphemed, and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thy eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 59:3-5,13-15 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity: your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue uttereth iniquity. . . .

Jeremiah 9:3-6 And they have bent their tongue, as a bow, for lies, and not for truth: they have strengthened themselves upon the earth, for they have proceeded from evil to evil, and me they have not known, saith the Lord. . . .

Romans 3:13,14 Their throat is an open sepulchre: with their tongues they have dealt deceitfully. The venom of asps is under their lips. . . .

James 3:5-8 Even so the tongue is indeed a little member and boasteth great things. Behold how small a fire kindleth a great wood. . . .

2 Peter 2:18 For, speaking proud words of vanity, they allure by the desires of fleshly riotousness those who for a little while escape, such as converse in error:

Context
What Defiles a Man
10And having called together the multitudes unto him, he said to them: Hear ye and understand. 11Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man: but what cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man. 12Then came his disciples, and said to him: Dost thou know that the Pharisees, when they heard this word, were scandalized?…
Cross References
Matthew 15:10
And having called together the multitudes unto him, he said to them: Hear ye and understand.

Matthew 15:12
Then came his disciples, and said to him: Dost thou know that the Pharisees, when they heard this word, were scandalized?

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

Acts 10:14
But Peter said: Far be it from me. For I never did eat any thing that is common and unclean.

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

1 Timothy 4:3
Forbidding to marry, to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful and by them that have known the truth.

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.

Lexicon
A
τὸν (ton)
Article - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

man
ἄνθρωπον (anthrōpon)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 444: A man, one of the human race. From aner and ops; man-faced, i.e. A human being.

is not defiled
κοινοῖ (koinoi)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's Greek 2840: To make unclean, pollute, desecrate, mid: I regard (treat) as unclean. From koinos; to make profane.

by what
τὸ (to)
Article - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's Greek 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

enters
εἰσερχόμενον (eiserchomenon)
Verb - Present Participle Middle or Passive - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's Greek 1525: To go in, come in, enter. From eis and erchomai; to enter.

[his]
τὸ (to)
Article - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's Greek 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

mouth,
στόμα (stoma)
Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's Greek 4750: The mouth, speech, eloquence in speech, the point of a sword.

but
ἀλλὰ (alla)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 235: But, except, however. Neuter plural of allos; properly, other things, i.e. contrariwise.

by what
τὸ (to)
Article - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's Greek 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

comes
ἐκπορευόμενον (ekporeuomenon)
Verb - Present Participle Middle or Passive - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's Greek 1607: From ek and poreuomai; to depart, be discharged, proceed, project.

out of
ἐκ (ek)
Preposition
Strong's Greek 1537: From out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards. A primary preposition denoting origin, from, out.

[it].”
στόματος (stomatos)
Noun - Genitive Neuter Singular
Strong's Greek 4750: The mouth, speech, eloquence in speech, the point of a sword.


Additional Translations
A man is not defiled by what enters his mouth, but by what comes out of it.”

It is not what is entering into the mouth that defiles the man; but that going forth out of the mouth, this defiles the man."

Not that which goes into the mouth defiles a man; but that which comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.

Not that which entereth into the mouth defileth the man; but that which proceedeth out of the mouth, this defileth the man.

Not what enters into the mouth defiles the man; but what goes forth out of the mouth, this defiles the man.

Not that which entereth into the mouth defileth the man; but that which proceedeth out of the mouth, this defileth the man.

Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.

It is not what goes into a man's mouth that defiles him; but it is what comes out of his mouth--*that* defiles a man."

That which enters into the mouth doesn't defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man."

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.'
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