Parallel Verses
Moffatt New Testament
That is what defiles a man; a man is not defiled by eating with hands unwashed!"
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.
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."
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 designs, murder, adultery, sexual vice, stealing, false witness, and slander. 20 That is what defiles a man; a man is not defiled by eating with hands unwashed!" 21 Going away from there Jesus withdrew to the district of Tyre and Sidon.
Cross References
Matthew 15:2
"Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands when they take their food."
Matthew 23:25-26
Woe to you, you irreligious scribes and Pharisees! you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are filled with your rapacity and self-indulgence.
Mark 7:3-4
(The Pharisees and all the Jews decline to eat till they wash their hands up to the wrist, in obedience to the tradition of the elders;
Luke 11:38-40
The Pharisee was astonished to see that he had not washed before the meal,
1 Corinthians 3:16-17
Do you not know you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells within you?
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
What! do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the Realm of God? Make no mistake about it; neither the immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor catamites nor sodomites
1 Corinthians 6:18-20
Shun immorality! Any other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his body.
Ephesians 5:3-6
Never let any sexual vice or impurity or lust be so much as mentioned by you ??that is the proper course for saints to take;
Revelation 21:8
but as for the craven, the faithless, the abominable, as for murderers, the immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and liars of all kinds ??their lot is the lake that blazes with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."
Revelation 21:27
Nothing profane, none who practises abomination or falsehood shall enter, but those alone whose names are written in the Lamb's book of Life.