Matthew 15:20 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

²⁰ and are what corrupt him [spiritually]. But eating [a meal] with [ceremonially] unwashed hands does not [spiritually] corrupt him.”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ these are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ 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)

²⁰ these are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not the man.

Common English Bible

²⁰ These contaminate a person in God’s sight. But eating without washing hands doesn’t contaminate in God’s sight.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ These are the things that defile a man. But to eat without washing hands does not defile a man."

Matthew 15:20 Cross References

Revelation 21:27

And there will never be anything [morally] unclean allowed to enter it, nor any person who practices disgusting behavior [i.e., probably such sins as sexual perversion], or [any person] who is a liar. But the only ones [allowed there] are those [whose names are] recorded in the Lamb’s book of life.

Revelation 21:8

But the place for cowards, and unbelievers, and disgusting people [i.e., because of their terrible sins], and murderers, and sexually immoral people, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, will be the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”

Matthew 15:2

“Why do your disciples violate the tradition of the [Jewish] elders? For they do not [ceremonially] wash their hands before eating [their meals].”

Matthew 15:19

For evil thoughts, murder, extramarital affairs, sexual immorality, stealing, perjury, slander --- [all these] come from a person’s heart,

Matthew 15:21

And Jesus left there and went into the regions of Tyre and Sidon [i.e., cities on the northwest coast of Palestine].