Parallel Verses

Weymouth New Testament

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

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."

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

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.

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 out of the heart proceed wicked thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, perjury, impiety of speech. 20 These are the things which defile the man; but eating with unwashed hands does not defile." 21 Leaving that place, Jesus withdrew into the vicinity of Tyre and Sidon.

Cross References

Matthew 15:2

"Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the Elders by not washing their hands before meals?"

Matthew 23:25-26

"Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you wash clean the outside of the cup or dish, while within they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

Mark 7:3-4

(For the Pharisees and all the Jews--being, as they are, zealous for the traditions of the Elders--never eat without first carefully washing their hands,

Luke 11:38-40

Now the Pharisee saw to his surprise that He did not wash His hands before breakfasting.

1 Corinthians 3:16-17

Do you not know that you are God's Sanctuary, and that the Spirit of God has His home within you?

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

Do you not know that unrighteous men will not inherit God's Kingdom? Cherish no delusion here. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor any who are guilty of unnatural crime,

1 Corinthians 6:18-20

Flee from fornication. Any other sin that a human being commits lies outside the body; but he who commits fornication sins against his own body.

Ephesians 5:3-6

But fornication and every kind of impurity, or covetousness, let them not even be mentioned among you, for they ought not to be named among God's people.

Revelation 21:8

But as for cowards and the unfaithful, and the polluted, and murderers, fornicators, and those who practise magic or worship idols, and all liars--the portion allotted to them shall be in the Lake which burns with fire and sulphur. This is the Second Death."

Revelation 21:27

And no unclean thing shall ever enter it, nor any one who is guilty of base conduct or tells lies, but only they whose names stand recorded in the Lamb's Book of Life.

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