Matthew 15:20 - Easy To Read Version

²⁰ These things make a person wrong. But not washing his hands before he eats does not make a person wrong.”

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

Matthew 15:19

All these bad things begin in a person’s mind: evil thoughts, murder, adultery, {\cf2\super [210]} sexual sins, stealing, lying, saying bad things against other people.

Matthew 15:2

“Why do your followers not obey the rules given to us by our great people that lived before us? Your followers don’t wash their hands before they eat!”

Matthew 15:21

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

Revelation 21:8

But the people who are cowards, people who refuse to believe, people who do terrible things, people who kill, people who sin sexually, people who do evil magic, people who worship idols, {\cf2\super [159]} and people who tell lies—all those people will have a place in the lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”