Mark 7:15-19

What Defiles a Person

¹⁵ _f There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him." ₁ ¹⁷ And when he had entered _g the house and left the people, _h his disciples asked him about the parable. ¹⁸ And he said to them, "Then _i are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him, ¹⁹ since it enters not his heart _j but his stomach, and is expelled?" ₂ ( _k Thus he declared all foods clean.)

1. Cross References
   Acts 10:14 - 15
   But Peter said, "By no means, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.
   
2. Cross References
   Mark 9:28
   And when he had entered the house, his disciples asked him privately, "Why could we not cast it out?
   
3. Cross References
   Matthew 13:36
   Then he left the crowds and went into the house. And his disciples came to him, saying, "Explain to us the parable of the weeds of the field.
   Matthew 15:15
   But Peter said to him, "Explain the parable to us.
   
4. Cross References
   Mark 8:17 - 18
   And Jesus, aware of this, said to them, "Why are you discussing the fact that you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive or understand? Are your hearts hardened?
   
5. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 6:13
   Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food" - and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
   
6. Cross References
   Luke 11:41
   But give as alms those things that are within, and behold, everything is clean for you.
   Acts 10:15
   And the voice came to him again a second time, "What God has made clean, do not call common.
   Acts 11:9
   But the voice answered a second time from heaven, 'What God has made clean, do not call common.