Matthew 15:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

These are what defile a person, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

these are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

These are what make a man unclean and defile [him]; but eating with unwashed hands does not make him unclean or defile [him].

American Standard Version (1901)

these are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not the man.

Common English Bible

These contaminate a person in God’s sight. But eating without washing hands doesn’t contaminate in God’s sight.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

These are the things that defile a man. But to eat without washing hands does not defile a man."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

These are the things that defile a man. But to eat with unwashed hands doth not defile a man.

Matthew 15:20 Cross References

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come evil intentions, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.

Matthew 15:2

“Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands before they eat.”

Matthew 15:21

Jesus left that place and went away to the district of Tyre and Sidon.

Revelation 21:27

But nothing unclean will enter it, nor anyone who practices abomination or falsehood, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

Revelation 21:8

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, the murderers, the sexually immoral, the sorcerers, the idolaters, and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”