Parallel Verses
An Understandable Version
and are what corrupt him [spiritually]. But eating [a meal] with [ceremonially] unwashed hands does not [spiritually] corrupt him."
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
These are the things that make a person unclean. But eating with unwashed hands doesn't make a person unclean."
A Conservative Version
These are things defiling the man. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man.
American Standard Version
these are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not the man.
Amplified
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.'
Themes
Defilement » Causes of, improperly enlarged by tradition
Ecclesiasticism » Traditional rules of the jewish
Malice » Springs from an evil heart
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Word Count of 37 Translations in Matthew 15:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Defilement From Within
19 For evil thoughts, murder, extramarital affairs, sexual immorality, stealing, perjury, slander --- [all these] come from a person's heart, 20 and are what corrupt him [spiritually]. But eating [a meal] with [ceremonially] unwashed hands does not [spiritually] corrupt him." 21 And Jesus left there and went into the regions of Tyre and Sidon [i.e., cities on the northwest coast of Palestine].
Cross References
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 23:25-26
"It is too bad for you hypocritical experts in the law of Moses and [you] Pharisees! For you [carefully] wash the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they [i.e., such evil people] are full of greed and uncontrolled desire.
Mark 7:3-4
(For the Pharisees and all the Jews would not eat anything unless they first scrubbed their hands [i.e., up to the wrists] in accordance with the [long-established] tradition of the Jewish elders).
Luke 11:38-40
And when the Pharisee observed this, he was surprised that Jesus had not first washed himself ceremonially before the meal.
1 Corinthians 3:16-17
Do you people not know that you are God's Temple [i.e., the church. See I Pet. 2:5; I Tim. 3:15], and that the Holy Spirit of God lives in you [i.e., collectively]?
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
Or, do you not know that evil people will not possess God's kingdom? Do not be misled: neither will sexually immoral people, nor idolaters, nor those who are sexually unfaithful to their mates, nor homosexual perverts. [Note: The Greek uses two words here, denoting both the passive and active partners in male homosexual acts].
1 Corinthians 6:18-20
Stay away from [any involvement in] sexual immorality. Every sin a person commits is outside [the realm] of his body; but the one who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. [Note: Possibly this means that sex, because it requires the deepest and most complete commitment of human involvement, becomes a unique sin when its true purpose and expression are violated].
Ephesians 5:3-6
But you should not even talk about sexual immorality, or any type of [moral] impurity, or greed. [Note: Possibly "greed" here means "desire for more" of such things]. Such talk is not suitable for saints [i.e., God's holy people].
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 sulphur. This is the second death."
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.