This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.(Matthew 15:8)

But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.(Matthew 15:9)

And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand:(Matthew 15:10)

Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.

Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying?(Matthew 15:12)

But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.(Matthew 15:13)

Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.(Matthew 15:14)

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Matthew 15:11 - Cross Reference

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity. (Psalm 10:7)

They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak. (Psalm 12:2)

The tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. (Psalm 52:2)

But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth. (Acts 11:8)

Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel. (Isaiah 37:23)

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. (Isaiah 59:3)

The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. (Psalm 58:3)

But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean. (Acts 10:14)

I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean. (Romans 14:14)

And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD. (Jeremiah 9:3)

For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. (Romans 14:17)

There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man. (Mark 7:15)

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. (2 Peter 2:18)

Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: (Romans 3:13)

Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled. (Titus 1:15)

O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. (Matthew 12:34)

Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein. (Hebrews 13:9)

For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence. (Romans 14:20)

And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner. (Luke 11:38)

For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: (1 Timothy 4:4)

But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. (Matthew 15:18)

Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! (James 3:5)

In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. (Isaiah 59:13)