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, "Certainly not, Lord! For I have never eaten anything common and unclean!"
Mark 7:15
There is nothing outside of a person that is able to defile him [by] going into him. But the things that go out of a person are the things that defile a person."
Psalm 10:7
His mouth is filled with cursing, with deceits and oppression; under his tongue are trouble and evil.
Psalm 12:2
They speak falseness {to each other}. [With] flattering lips, [with] {a double heart} they speak.
Psalm 52:2-4
Your tongue plans destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceit.
Psalm 58:3-4
The wicked are estranged from [the] womb. They go astray from [the] belly, speaking lies.
Isaiah 37:23
Whom have you taunted and blasphemed, and against whom have you raised up [your] voice and lifted your eyes upward? To 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 speaks wickedness.
Isaiah 59:13-15
transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning {away from following} our God; speaking oppression and falsehood, conceiving and uttering words of deception from [the] heart.
Jeremiah 9:3-6
And they bend their tongue [like] their bow, [for] falsehood and not truth is superior in the land, for they go forth from evil to evil, and they do not know me," {declares} Yahweh.
Matthew 12:34-37
Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say good things [when you] are evil? For from the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
Matthew 15:18-20
But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these defile the person.
Luke 11:38-41
And the Pharisee, [when he] saw [it], was astonished that he did not first wash before the meal.
Acts 11:8-9
But I said, 'Certainly not, Lord! For nothing common or unclean has ever entered into my mouth!'
Romans 3:13-14
Their throat [is] an opened grave; they deceive with their tongues; the venom of asps [is] under their lips,
Romans 14:14
I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing [is] unclean of itself, except to the one who considers something to be unclean; to that person [it is] unclean.
Romans 14:17
For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Romans 14:20
Do not destroy the work of God on account of food. All [things] [are] clean, but [it is] wrong for the person {who eats and stumbles in the process}.
1 Timothy 4:4-5
because everything created by God [is] good and nothing [is to be] rejected [if it is] received with thankfulness,
Titus 1:15
To the pure all [things] [are] pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing [is] pure, but both their mind and conscience are defiled.
Hebrews 13:9
Do not be carried away by various and strange teachings, for [it is] good [for] the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods by which those who participate have not benefited.
James 3:5-8
So also the tongue is a small member [of the body] and boasts great [things]. Behold how small a fire sets ablaze how great a forest!
2 Peter 2:18
{For by speaking high-sounding but empty words}, they entice with desires of the flesh [and] with licentiousness those who are scarcely escaping from those who live in error,