Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled?
The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.
“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus you will recognize them by their fruits.
And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell.
“Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch” (referring to things that all perish as they are used)—according to human precepts and teachings?
And they demolished the pillar of Baal, and demolished the house of Baal, and made it a latrine to this day.
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