6 Bible Verses about People Unwashed
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These are the things that defile a person. But eating with unwashed hands does not defile a person!"
And they saw that some of his disciples were eating their bread with unclean--that is, unwashed--hands.
And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unclean hands?"
My body is clothed [with] maggots and clods of dust; my skin hardens, then it gives way [again].
"Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat {a meal}."
"Whenever you fast, do not be sullen like the hypocrites, for they make their faces unrecognizable in order that they may be seen fasting by people. Truly I say to you, they have received their reward in full!