Parallel Verses
Twentieth Century New Testament
These are the things that defile a man; but eating with unwashed hands does not defile a man."
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."
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.
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 proceed evil thoughts--murder, adultery, unchastity, theft, perjury, slander. 20 These are the things that defile a man; but eating with unwashed hands does not defile a man." 21 On going away from that place, Jesus retired to the country round Tyre and Sidon.
Cross References
Matthew 15:2
"How is it that your disciples break the traditions of our ancestors? For they do not wash their hands when they eat food."
Matthew 23:25-26
Alas for you, Teachers of the Law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are filled with the results of greed and self-indulgence.
Mark 7:3-4
(For the Pharisees, and indeed all strict Jews, will not eat without first scrupulously washing their hands, holding in this to the traditions of their ancestors.
Luke 11:38-40
The Pharisee noticed, to his astonishment, that Jesus omitted the ceremonial washing before breakfast.
1 Corinthians 3:16-17
Do not you know that you are God's Temple, and that God's Spirit has his home in you?
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
Do not you know that wrong-doers will have no share in God's Kingdom? Do not be deceived. No one who is immoral, or an idolater, or an adulterer, or licentious, or a sodomite,
1 Corinthians 6:18-20
Shun all immorality. Every other sin that men commit is something outside the body; but an immoral man sins against his own body.
Ephesians 5:3-6
As for unchastity and every kind of impurity, or greed, do not let them even be mentioned among you, as befits Christ's People,
Revelation 21:8
But as for cowards, unbelievers, the degraded, murderers, the impure, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars--their place will be in the burning lake of fire and sulphur. That is the Second Death.'
Revelation 21:27
'Never shall any unhallowed thing enter it,' nor he whose life is shameful and false, but only 'those whose names have been written in the Lamb's Book of Life.'