Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

These are things defiling the man. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man.

New American Standard Bible

These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man.”

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

These are the things that defile a man, but eating with unwashed hands does not defile a man.”

International Standard Version

These are the things that make a person unclean. But eating with unwashed hands doesn't make a person unclean."

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

These are the things which defile and dishonor the man; but eating with [ceremonially] unwashed hands does not defile the man.”

An Understandable Version

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

Anderson New Testament

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

Bible in Basic English

These are the things which make a man unclean; but to take food with unwashed hands does not make a man unclean.

Common New Testament

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

Daniel Mace New Testament

these are the things which defile a man: but to eat without washing one's hands, that does not defile a man.

Darby Translation

these are the things which defile man; but the eating with unwashen hands does not defile man.

Godbey New Testament

These are the things which defile the man: but to eat bread with unwashed hands does not defile the man.

Goodspeed New Testament

It is these things that pollute a man, but not eating with unwashed hands!"

John Wesley New Testament

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

Julia Smith Translation

These are the things polluting a man: but to eat with unwashed hands pollutes not a man.

King James 2000

These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashed hands defiles not a man.

Lexham Expanded Bible

These are the things that defile a person. But eating with unwashed hands does not defile a person!"

Modern King James verseion

these are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

These are the things which defile a man. But to eat with unwashen hands, defileth not a man."

Moffatt New Testament

That is what defiles a man; a man is not defiled by eating with hands unwashed!"

Montgomery New Testament

These are the things that defile a man; to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man."

NET Bible

These are the things that defile a person; it is not eating with unwashed hands that defiles a person."

New Heart English Bible

These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man."

Noyes New Testament

These are the things which defile a man; but to eat with unwashed hands defileth not a man.

Sawyer New Testament

these are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man.

The Emphasized Bible

these, are the things which defile the man, but, the eating with unwashed hands, doth not defile the man.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

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

Twentieth Century New Testament

These are the things that defile a man; but eating with unwashed hands does not defile a man."

Webster

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

Weymouth New Testament

These are the things which defile the man; but eating with unwashed hands does not defile."

Williams New Testament

These are the things that make a man foul, but eating with unwashed hands does not make a man foul."

World English Bible

These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn't defile the man."

Worrell New Testament

these are the things which defile the man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man."

Worsley New Testament

these defile a man, but to eat without washing the hands doth not defile him.

Youngs Literal Translation

these are the things defiling the man; but to eat with unwashen hands doth not defile the man.'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ταῦτα 
Tauta 
Usage: 188

are
ἐστί 
Esti 
is, are, was, be, have, not tr, , vr is
Usage: 585

κοινόω 
Koinoo 
Usage: 5

a man
ἄνθρωπος 
Anthropos 
man, not tr,
Usage: 316

but
δέ 
De 
but, and, now, then, also, yet, yea, so, moreover, nevertheless, for, even, , not tr
Usage: 2184

to eat
φάγω 
Phago 
Usage: 54

with
χείρ 
Cheir 
hand, not tr
Usage: 149

ἄνιπτος 
Aniptos 
Usage: 2

χείρ 
Cheir 
hand, not tr
Usage: 149

κοινόω 
Koinoo 
Usage: 5

not
οὐ 
Ou 
not, no, cannot ,
Usage: 1032

Devotionals

Devotionals about Matthew 15:20

References

American

Easton

Context Readings

Defilement From Within

19 For from the heart comes forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, FALSE witnessings, revilings. 20 These are things defiling the man. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man. 21 And having gone out from there, Jesus departed into the regions of Tyre and Sidon.

Cross References

Matthew 15:2

Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.

Matthew 23:25-26

Woe to you, scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but inside they are full of plunder and unrighteousness.

Mark 7:3-4

(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, unless they wash their hands carefully, do not eat, holding the tradition of the elders.

Luke 11:38-40

And when the Pharisee saw, he marveled that he did not first wash before dinner.

1 Corinthians 3:16-17

Know ye not that ye are a temple of God and the Spirit of God dwells in you?

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

Or know ye not that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not led astray. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate men, nor homosexuals,

1 Corinthians 6:18-20

Flee fornication. Every sin, whatever a man may do, is outside the body, but he who fornicates sins against his own body.

Ephesians 5:3-6

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or greed, shall not even be named among you as befits the sanctified,

Revelation 21:8

But for the cowards, and unbelieving, and sinful, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

Revelation 21:27

And there will, no, not enter into it anything profane, and doing an abomination and a lie, since they are not written in the Lamb's book of life.

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