Matthew 15:11

Defilement From Within

¹⁰ And having called near the multitude, he said to them, 'Hear and understand: ¹¹ not that which is coming into the mouth doth defile the man, but that which is coming forth from the mouth, this defileth the man.' ¹² Then his disciples having come near, said to him, 'Hast thou known that the Pharisees, having heard the word, were stumbled?'

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Acts 10:14-15

And Peter said, 'Not so, Lord; because at no time did I eat anything common or unclean;'

Mark 7:15

there is nothing from without the man entering into him that is able to defile him, but the things coming out from him, those are the things defiling the man.

Psalm 10:7

Of oaths his mouth is full, And deceits, and fraud: Under his tongue is perverseness and iniquity,

Psalm 12:2

Vanity they speak each with his neighbour, Lip of flattery! With heart and heart they speak.

Psalm 52:2-4

Mischiefs doth thy tongue devise, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.

Psalm 58:3-4

The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.

Isaiah 37:23

Whom hast thou reproached and reviled? And against whom lifted up the voice? Yea, thou dost lift up on high thine eyes Against the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 59:3-5

For your hands have been polluted with blood, And your fingers with iniquity, Your lips have spoken falsehood, Your tongue perverseness doth mutter.

Isaiah 59:13-15

Transgressing, and lying against Jehovah, And removing from after our God, Speaking oppression and apostasy, Conceiving and uttering from the heart Words of falsehood.

Jeremiah 9:3-6

And they bend their tongue, their bow is a lie, And not for stedfastness have they been mighty in the land, For from evil unto evil they have gone forth, And Me they have not known, An affirmation of Jehovah!

Matthew 12:34-37

Brood of vipers! how are ye able to speak good things -- being evil? for out of the abundance of the heart doth the mouth speak.

Matthew 15:18-20

but the things coming forth from the mouth from the heart do come forth, and these defile the man;

Luke 11:38-41

and the Pharisee having seen, did wonder that he did not first baptize himself before the dinner.

Acts 11:8-9

and I said, Not so, Lord; because anything common or unclean hath at no time entered into my mouth;

Romans 3:13-14

A sepulchre opened is their throat; with their tongues they used deceit; poison of asps is under their lips.

Romans 14:14

I have known, and am persuaded, in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself, except to him who is reckoning anything to be unclean -- to that one it is unclean;

Romans 14:17

for the reign of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit;

Romans 14:20

for the sake of victuals cast not down the work of God; all things, indeed, are pure, but evil is to the man who is eating through stumbling.

1 Timothy 4:4-5

because every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, with thanksgiving being received,

Titus 1:15

all things, indeed, are pure to the pure, and to the defiled and unstedfast is nothing pure, but of them defiled are even the mind and the conscience;

Hebrews 13:9

with teachings manifold and strange be not carried about, for it is good that by grace the heart be confirmed, not with meats, in which they who were occupied were not profited;

James 3:5-8

so also the tongue is a little member, and doth boast greatly; lo, a little fire how much wood it doth kindle!

2 Peter 2:18

for overswellings of vanity speaking, they do entice in desires of the flesh -- lasciviousnesses, those who had truly escaped from those conducting themselves in error,