Matthew 15:11

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

not that which is coming into the mouth doth defile the man, but that which is coming forth from the mouth, this defileth the man.'

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Οὐ τὸ εἰσερχόμενον εἰς τὸ στόμα κοινοῖ τὸν ἄνθρωπον· ἀλλὰ τὸ ἐκπορευόμενον ἐκ τοῦ στόματος, τοῦτο κοινοῖ τὸν ἄνθρωπον.

Transliteration

Not the [thing] eiserchomenon into the stoma koinoi the anthrōpon; but the [thing] ekporeuomenon out of the stomatos, this koinoi the anthrōpon.

Grammar Details

• *Ou*: negative particle - not
• *to eiserchomenon*: present participle, nominative, neuter, singular - the thing entering
• *eis*: preposition + accusative - into
• *to stoma*: accusative, neuter, singular - the mouth
• *koinoi*: present, indicative, active, 3rd person singular - defiles
• *ton anthrōpon*: accusative, masculine, singular - the man/person
• *alla*: strong adversative conjunction - but
• *to ekporeuomenon*: present participle, nominative, neuter, singular - the thing proceeding
• *ek*: preposition + genitive - out of
• *tou stomatos*: genitive, neuter, singular - the mouth
• *touto*: demonstrative pronoun, nominative, neuter, singular - this

Word Meanings

• *eiserchomenon*: entering/going into
• *stoma*: mouth/speech
• *koinoi*: defiles/makes common/makes unclean
• *anthrōpon*: man/person/human
• *ekporeuomenon*: proceeding/coming out/going forth

Referenced Verses

• Acts 10:14-15 : 14 And Peter said, `Not so, Lord; because at no time did I eat anything common or unclean;' 15 and `there is' a voice again a second time unto him: `What God did cleanse, thou, declare not thou common;'
• Mark 7:15 : 15 there is nothing from without the man entering into him that is able to defile him, but the things coming out from him, those are the things defiling the man.
• Rom 14:14 : 14 I have known, and am persuaded, in the Lord Jesus, that nothing `is' unclean of itself, except to him who is reckoning anything to be unclean -- to that one `it is' unclean;
• Rom 14:17 : 17 for the reign of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit;
• Luke 11:38-41 : 38 and the Pharisee having seen, did wonder that he did not first baptize himself before the dinner. 39 And the Lord said unto him, `Now do ye, the Pharisees, the outside of the cup and of the plate make clean, but your inward part is full of rapine and wickedness; 40 unthinking! did not He who made the outside also the inside make? 41 But what ye have give ye `as' alms, and, lo, all things are clean to you.
• Matt 12:34-37 : 34 `Brood of vipers! how are ye able to speak good things -- being evil? for out of the abundance of the heart doth the mouth speak. 35 The good man out of the good treasure of the heart doth put forth the good things, and the evil man out of the evil treasure doth put forth evil things. 36 `And I say to you, that every idle word that men may speak, they shall give for it a reckoning in a day of judgment; 37 for from thy words thou shalt be declared righteous, and from thy words thou shalt be declared unrighteous.'
• Matt 15:18-20 : 18 but the things coming forth from the mouth from the heart do come forth, and these defile the man; 19 for out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, whoredoms, thefts, false witnessings, evil speakings: 20 these are the things defiling the man; but to eat with unwashen hands doth not defile the man.'
• Ps 10:7 : 7 Of oaths his mouth is full, And deceits, and fraud: Under his tongue `is' perverseness and iniquity,
• Ps 12:2 : 2 Vanity they speak each with his neighbour, Lip of flattery! With heart and heart they speak.
• Ps 52:2-4 : 2 Mischiefs doth thy tongue devise, Like a sharp razor, working deceit. 3 Thou hast loved evil rather than good, Lying, than speaking righteousness. Selah. 4 Thou hast loved all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
• Ps 58:3-4 : 3 The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies. 4 Their poison `is' as poison of a serpent, As a deaf asp shutting its ear,
• Jas 3:5-8 : 5 so also the tongue is a little member, and doth boast greatly; lo, a little fire how much wood it doth kindle! 6 and the tongue `is' a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna. 7 For every nature, both of beasts and of fowls, both of creeping things and things of the sea, is subdued, and hath been subdued, by the human nature, 8 and the tongue no one of men is able to subdue, `it is' an unruly evil, full of deadly poison,
• 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 for overswellings of vanity speaking, they do entice in desires of the flesh -- lasciviousnesses, those who had truly escaped from those conducting themselves in error,
• Acts 11:8-9 : 8 and I said, Not so, Lord; because anything common or unclean hath at no time entered into my mouth; 9 and a voice did answer me a second time out of the heaven, What God did cleanse, thou -- declare not thou common.
• Rom 3:13-14 : 13 A sepulchre opened `is' their throat; with their tongues they used deceit; poison of asps `is' under their lips. 14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
• Isa 37:23 : 23 Whom hast thou reproached and reviled? And against whom lifted up the voice? Yea, thou dost lift up on high thine eyes Against the Holy One of Israel.
• Isa 59:3-5 : 3 For your hands have been polluted with blood, And your fingers with iniquity, Your lips have spoken falsehood, Your tongue perverseness doth mutter. 4 There is none calling in righteousness, And there is none pleading in faithfulness, Trusting on emptiness, and speaking falsehood, Conceiving perverseness, and bearing iniquity. 5 Eggs of a viper they have hatched, And webs of a spider they weave, Whoso is eating their eggs doth die, And the crushed hatcheth a viper.
• Isa 59:13-15 : 13 Transgressing, and lying against Jehovah, And removing from after our God, Speaking oppression and apostacy, Conceiving and uttering from the heart Words of falsehood. 14 And removed backward is judgment, And righteousness afar off standeth, For truth hath been feeble in the street, And straightforwardness is not able to enter, 15 And the truth is lacking, And whoso is turning aside from evil, Is making himself a spoil. And Jehovah seeth, and it is evil in His eyes, That there is no judgment.
• Jer 9:3-6 : 3 And they bend their tongue, their bow `is' a lie, And not for stedfastness have they been mighty in the land, For from evil unto evil they have gone forth, And Me they have not known, An affirmation of Jehovah! 4 Each of his friend -- beware ye, And on any brother, do not trust, For every brother doth utterly supplant, For every friend slanderously doth walk, 5 And each at his friend they mock, And truth they do not speak, They taught their tongue to speak falsehood, To commit iniquity they have laboured. 6 thy dwelling `is' in the midst of deceit, Through deceit they refused to know Me, An affirmation of Jehovah.
• Rom 14:20 : 20 for the sake of victuals cast not down the work of God; all things, indeed, `are' pure, but evil `is' to the man who is eating through stumbling.
• 1 Tim 4:4-5 : 4 because every creature of God `is' good, and nothing `is' to be rejected, with thanksgiving being received, 5 for it is sanctified through the word of God and intercession.
• Titus 1:15 : 15 all things, indeed, `are' pure to the pure, and to the defiled and unstedfast `is' nothing pure, but of them defiled `are' even the mind and the conscience;
• Heb 13:9 : 9 with teachings manifold and strange be not carried about, for `it is' good that by grace the heart be confirmed, not with meats, in which they who were occupied were not profited;