Matthew 15:20 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

These are what defile a man; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man.”

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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 thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander.

Matthew 15:2

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

Matthew 15:21

And Jesus went away from there and withdrew to the district of Tyre and Sidon.

Revelation 21:27

But nothing unclean shall enter it, nor any one 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, as for murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their lot shall be in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.”