Matthew 15:11

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Summary

Matthew 15:11

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

That which goeth

But

General references

Leviticus 11:2

Matthew 15:18

Luke 12:57

Bible References

That which goeth

There is nothing from without a man, entering into him, which can defile him: but things coming out from him, these are the things polluting the man.

And the Pharisee having seen, wondered that he was not first washed before dinner.

And Peter said, By no means, Lord; for never ate I anything common or unclean.

And I said, By no means, Lord: for anything common or unclean never came into my month.

I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing common by itself; except to any one reckoning to be common, to that one it is common.

For every created thing of God good, and nothing thrown away, received with thanks:

All things truly pure to the pure: and to the defiled and unbelieving nothing pure; but also their mind and consciousness are defiled.

With various and strange teachings be not carried about. For good the heart be rendered firm by grace; not by food, in which they having walked about were not profited.

But

But the things going forth out of the mouth come from the heart, and these pollute the man.

O generation of vipers! how can ye speak good things, being evil? for out of the abundance of the heart the month speaks.

His mouth was filled with cursing and deceit and violence: under his tongue, trouble and vanity.

They will speak vanity each with his neighbor: smooth lips, with a heart and a heart will they speak

Thy tongue will purpose mischief as a razor being sharpened, working deceit.

The unjust turned aside from the belly: they went astray from the womb, speaking falsehood.

Whom didst thou reproach and revile, and against whom didst thou raise up the voice, and wilt thou lift up thine eyes on high to the Holy One of Israel?

For your hands were polluted with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips spake falsehood, your tongue will mutter evil.

And they will bend their tongue, their bow, a lie: and they were not strong for faithfulness upon the land; for from evil to evil they went forth, and they knew me not, says Jehovah.

Their throat an opened tomb; with their tongues have they used deceit; the poison of asps under their lips:

So also the tongue is a small member, and vaunts itself. Behold, how great a wood a little fire inflames

For speaking excessive things of vanity, they decoy with the eager desires of the flesh, for licentiousness, them having truly escaped from those turned back in error.

General references

Speak. to the sons of Israel, saying These the beasts which ye shall eat from all the cattle which are upon the earth.

But the things going forth out of the mouth come from the heart, and these pollute the man.

And why also of yourselves judge ye not the just thing?