Matthew 15:17
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17 Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach and goes out into the sewer?
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Colossians 2:21-22
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21 “Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!”? 22 All these regulations refer to things that perish with use; they are simply human commands and teachings.(A)
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1 Corinthians 6:13
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13 “Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food,”[a] and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is meant not for sexual immorality but for the Lord and the Lord for the body.(A)
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- 6.13 The quotation may extend to the word other
Luke 6:45
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45 The good person out of the good treasure of the heart produces good, and the evil person out of evil treasure produces evil, for it is out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaks.(A)
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2 Kings 10:27
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27 Then they demolished the pillar of Baal and destroyed the temple of Baal and made it a latrine to this day.(A)
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James 3:6
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6 And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is placed among our members as a world of iniquity; it stains the whole body, sets on fire the cycle of life, and is itself set on fire by hell.[a](A)
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- 3.6 Gk Gehenna
Matthew 7:19-20
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19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.(A) 20 Thus you will know them by their fruits.
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