Matthew 15:16-17

What Defiles a Person

¹⁶ And he said, _y "Are you also still without understanding? ¹⁷ Do you not see that _z whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled? ₁

1. Cross References
   Matthew 16:9
   Do you not yet perceive? Do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you gathered?
   
2. 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.