Matthew 15:11
"Listen, and pay attention. It is not what goes into a man's mouth that defiles him, but what comes out of it, that defiles the man."
Acts 10:14-15
"Not so, my Lord," answered Peter, "for I have never yet eaten anything common and unclean."
Mark 7:15
"Listen to me, all of you, and understand; there is nothing outside a man which by entering in can defile him; but it is what comes from him that defiled him."
Matthew 12:34-37
"You generation of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. "When the time of fruit drew near, he sent his slaves to the vine-dressers seized to get his fruit.
Matthew 15:18-20
while what comes out of the mouth comes from the heart??nd that is what defiles a man.
Luke 11:38-41
And the Pharisee noticed, to his amazement, that he did not wash his hands before eating,
Acts 11:8-9
"'Not so, my Lord' said I, 'for nothing common or unclean has ever gone into my mouth.'
Romans 3:13-14
Their throat is an open grave; With their tongues they have used deceit. The venom of asps is under their lips.
Romans 14:14
I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is in itself unclean; but any food is "unclean" for one who considers 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, be tearing down God's work. All food indeed is ceremonially clean, but a man is in the wrong if his food proves a stumbling-block.
1 Timothy 4:4-5
For everything that God has created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if only it is received with thankfulness.
Titus 1:15
All things are pure to the pure; but to the contaminated and the faithless nothing is pure, nay, their very minds and consciences are tainted.
Hebrews 13:9
Do not allow yourselves to be swept away by various and strange teachings. For it is a beautiful thing to be established in heart by grace, and not by regulations regarding food, from which those that occupied themselves with them have derived no benefit.
James 3:5-8
So also the tongue is a small member and makes great boasts. Behold, how great a forest is set on fire by a little spark!
2 Peter 2:18
For speaking great swelling words of vanity, they entangle, by their lasciviousness, in the lusts of the flesh, those who are just about to escape from the men that live in misconduct.