If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.

But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.

Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! {a matter: or, wood}

For every creature of God {is} good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:

O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.

And when the Pharisee saw {it}, he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner.

But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.

They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: {with} flattering lips {and} with a double heart do they speak. {a double...: Heb. an heart and an heart}

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.

Their throat {is} an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps {is} under their lips:

Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue {is} mischief and vanity. {deceit: Heb. deceits} {vanity: or, iniquity}

The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. {as soon...: Heb. from the belly}

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.

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

For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed {are} pure; but {it is} evil for that man who eateth with offence.

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.

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. {unclean: Gr. common}

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. {clean: or, for a little, or, a while, as some read}

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.

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.

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

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. {course: Gr. wheel}

And the voice {spake} unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, {that} call not thou common.

But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.

Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath {days}: {in meat...: or, for eating and drinking} {respect: or, part}

For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed {are} pure; but {it is} evil for that man who eateth with offence.

Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These {are} the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that {are} on the earth.

Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they {are} unclean to you.