Matthew 15:11
it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person."
Acts 10:14-15
But Peter said, "By no means, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean."
Mark 7:15
There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him."
Psalm 10:7
His mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; under his tongue are mischief and iniquity.
Psalm 12:2
Everyone utters lies to his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.
Psalm 52:2-4
Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.
Psalm 58:3-4
The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from birth, speaking lies.
Isaiah 37:23
"'Whom have you mocked and reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes to the heights? Against the Holy One of Israel!
Isaiah 59:3-5
For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies; your tongue mutters wickedness.
Isaiah 59:13-15
transgressing, and denying the LORD, and turning back from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart lying words.
Jeremiah 9:3-6
They bend their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, declares the LORD.
Matthew 12:34-37
You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
Matthew 15:18-20
But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person.
Luke 11:38-41
The Pharisee was astonished to see that he did not first wash before dinner.
Acts 11:8-9
But I said, 'By no means, Lord; for nothing common or unclean has ever entered my mouth.'
Romans 3:13-14
"Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive." "The venom of asps is under their lips."
Romans 14:14
I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself, but it is unclean for anyone who thinks it unclean.
Romans 14:17
For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Romans 14:20
Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong for anyone to make another stumble by what he eats.
1 Timothy 4:4-5
For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,
Titus 1:15
To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled.
Hebrews 13:9
Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, which have not benefited those devoted to them.
James 3:5-8
So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire!
2 Peter 2:18
For, speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely escaping from those who live in error.