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)

Then answered Peter and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable.(Matthew 15:15)

And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?(Matthew 15:16)

Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?

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

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:(Matthew 15:19)

These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.(Matthew 15:20)

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Matthew 15:17 - Cross Reference

And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day. (2 Kings 10:27)

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. (1 Corinthians 6:13)

A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh. (Luke 6:45)

(Touch not; taste not; handle not; (Colossians 2:21)

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. (James 3:6)

Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. (Matthew 7:19)