Parallel Verses
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.
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
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.
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
Interlinear
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Word Count of 37 Translations in Matthew 15:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Defilement From Within
19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, the taking of life, broken faith between the married, unclean desires of the flesh, taking of property, false witness, bitter words: 20 These are the things which make a man unclean; but to take food with unwashed hands does not make a man unclean. 21 And Jesus went away from there into the country of Tyre and Sidon.
Cross References
Matthew 15:2
Why do your disciples go against the teaching of the fathers? for they take food with unwashed hands.
Matthew 23:25-26
A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of violent behaviour and uncontrolled desire.
Mark 7:3-4
Now the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not take food without washing their hands with care, keeping the old rule which has been handed down to them:
Luke 11:38-40
And when the Pharisee saw it, he was surprised because he came to the meal without first washing himself.
1 Corinthians 3:16-17
Do you not see that you are God's holy house, and that the Spirit of God has his place in you?
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men,
1 Corinthians 6:18-20
Keep away from the desires of the flesh. Every sin which a man does is outside of the body; but he who goes after the desires of the flesh does evil to his body.
Ephesians 5:3-6
But evil acts of the flesh and all unclean things, or desire for others' property, let it not even be named among you, as is right for saints;
Revelation 21:8
But those who are full of fear and without faith, the unclean and takers of life, those who do the sins of the flesh, and those who make use of evil powers or who give worship to images, and all those who are false, will have their part in the sea of ever-burning fire which is the second death.
Revelation 21:27
And nothing unclean may come into it, or anyone whose works are cursed or false; but only those whose names are in the Lamb's book of life.