Matthew 15:17 "Don't you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body?

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
"Don't you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body?

English Standard Version
Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled?

New American Standard Bible
"Do you not understand that everything that goes into the mouth passes into the stomach, and is eliminated?

King James Bible
Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
"Don't you realize that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is eliminated?

International Standard Version
Don't you know that everything that goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and then is expelled as waste?

American Standard Version
Perceive ye not, that whatsoever goeth into the mouth passeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?

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

Darby Bible Translation
Do ye not yet apprehend, that everything that enters into the mouth finds its way into the belly, and is cast forth into the draught?

Young's Literal Translation
do ye not understand that all that is going into the mouth doth pass into the belly, and into the drain is cast forth?

Cross References

Matthew 15:16
And Jesus said, Are you also yet without understanding?

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

Mark 7:19
Because it enters not into his heart, but into the belly, and goes out into the draught, purging all meats?

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

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

15:10-20 Christ shows that the defilement they ought to fear, was not from what entered their mouths as food, but from what came out of their mouths, which showed the wickedness of their hearts. Nothing will last in the soul but the regenerating graces of the Holy Spirit; and nothing should be admitted into the church but what is from above; therefore, whoever is offended by a plain, seasonable declaration of the truth, we should not be troubled at it. The disciples ask to be better taught as to this matter. Where a weak head doubts concerning any word of Christ, an upright heart and a willing mind seek for instruction. It is the heart that is desperately wicked, Jer 17:9, for there is no sin in word or deed, which was not first in the heart. They all come out of the man, and are fruits of that wickedness which is in the heart, and is wrought there. When Christ teaches, he will show men the deceitfulness and wickedness of their own hearts; he will teach them to humble themselves, and to seek to be cleansed in the Fountain opened for sin and uncleanness.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

17, 18. Do not ye yet understand that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth, &c.—Familiar though these sayings have now become, what freedom from bondage to outward things do they proclaim, on the one hand; and on the other, how searching is the truth which they express—that nothing which enters from without can really defile us; and that only the evil that is in the heart, that is allowed to stir there, to rise up in thought and affection, and to flow forth in voluntary action, really defiles a man!