Matthew 15:11

Defilement From Within

¹⁰ After Jesus called the crowd to Him, He said to them, “Hear and understand. ¹¹ It is not what enters into the mouth that defiles the man, but what proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.” ¹² Then the disciples *came and *said to Him, “Do You know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this statement?”

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Acts 10:14-15

But Peter said, “By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten anything unholy and unclean.”

Mark 7:15

there is nothing outside the man which can defile him if it goes into him; but the things which proceed out of the man are what defile the man.

Psalm 10:7

His mouth is full of curses and deceit and oppression;
Under his tongue is mischief and wickedness.

Psalm 12:2

They speak falsehood to one another;
With flattering lips and with a double heart they speak.

Psalm 52:2-4

Your tongue devises destruction,
Like a sharp razor, O worker of deceit.

Psalm 58:3-4

The wicked are estranged from the womb;
These who speak lies go astray from birth.

Isaiah 37:23

“Whom have you reproached and blasphemed?
And against whom have you raised your voice
And haughtily lifted up your eyes?
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 falsehood,
Your tongue mutters wickedness.

Isaiah 59:13-15

Transgressing and denying the Lord,
And turning away from our God,
Speaking oppression and revolt,
Conceiving in and uttering from the heart lying words.

Jeremiah 9:3-6

“They bend their tongue like their bow;
Lies and not truth prevail 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, being evil, speak what is good? For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart.

Matthew 15:18-20

But the things that proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and those defile the man.

Luke 11:38-41

When the Pharisee saw it, he was surprised that He had not first ceremonially washed before the meal.

Acts 11:8-9

But I said, ‘By no means, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’

Romans 3:13-14

“Their throat is an open grave,
With their tongues they keep deceiving,”
“The poison of asps is under their lips”;

Romans 14:14

I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; but to him who thinks anything to be unclean, to him 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 tear down the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are clean, but they are evil for the man who eats and gives offense.

1 Timothy 4:4-5

For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with gratitude;

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 their conscience are defiled.

Hebrews 13:9

Do not be carried away by varied and strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

James 3:5-8

So also the tongue is a small part of the body, and yet it boasts of great things.See how great a forest is set aflame by such a small fire!

2 Peter 2:18

For speaking out arrogant words of vanity they entice by fleshly desires, by sensuality, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error,