Matthew 15:18 Cross References - Moffatt

¹⁸ while what comes out of the mouth comes from the heart — and that is what defiles a man.

³⁴ You brood of vipers, how can you speak good when you are evil? For the mouth utters what the heart is full of.

¹¹ it is not what enters a man's mouth that defiles him, what defiles a man is what comes out of his mouth."

²² He replied, 'You rascal of a servant, I will convict you by what you have said yourself. You knew, did you, that I was a hard man, picking up what I never put down, and reaping what I never sowed!

⁶ And the tongue is a fire, the tongue proves a very world of mischief among our members, staining the whole of the body and setting fire to the round circle of existence with a flame fed by hell. ⁷ For while every kind of beast and bird, of creeping animals and creatures marine, is tameable and has been tamed by mankind, ⁸ no man can tame the tongue — plague of disorder that it is, full of deadly venom! ⁹ With the tongue we bless the Lord and Father, and with the tongue we curse men made in God's likeness; ¹⁰ blessing and cursing stream from the same lips! My brothers, this ought not to be.

⁵ He was allowed to utter loud and blasphemous vaunts, and allowed to exert authority for two and forty months; ⁶ so he opened his mouth for blasphemies against God, to blaspheme his name and his dwelling (that is, the dwellers in heaven).