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Mark 7:19
Because it goes not into the heart but into the stomach, and goes out with the waste? He said this, making all food clean.
Mark 7:19 · Bible in Basic English
Mark 7:19 in other translations
Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
because it does not enter his heart, but it goes into the stomach and then is eliminated.” (Thus all foods are clean.)
because it doesn’t go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, making all foods clean?”
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In context
17 And when he had gone into the house away from all the people, his disciples put questions to him about the saying.
18 And he said to them, Have even you so little wisdom? Do you not see that whatever goes into a man from outside is not able to make him unclean,
19 Because it goes not into the heart but into the stomach, and goes out with the waste? He said this, making all food clean.
20 And he said, That which comes out of the man, that makes the man unclean.
21 Because from inside, from the heart of men, come evil thoughts and unclean pleasures,
22 The taking of goods and of life, broken faith between husband and wife, the desire of wealth, wrongdoing, deceit, sins of the flesh, an evil eye, angry words, pride, foolish acts:
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