Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

These are the things that defile a man, but eating with unwashed hands does not defile a man.”

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.

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.

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.'

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 from the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies. 20 These are the things that defile a man, but eating with unwashed hands does not defile a man.” 21 When Jesus left there, He withdrew to the area of Tyre and Sidon.


Cross References

Matthew 15:2

“Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat!”

Matthew 23:25-26

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence!

Mark 7:3-4

(For the Pharisees, in fact all the Jews, will not eat unless they wash their hands ritually, keeping the tradition of the elders.

Luke 11:38-40

When the Pharisee saw this, he was amazed that He did not first perform the ritual washing before dinner.

1 Corinthians 3:16-17

Don’t you yourselves know that you are God’s sanctuary and that the Spirit of God lives in you?

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

Don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be deceived: No sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, or anyone practicing homosexuality,

1 Corinthians 6:18-20

Run from sexual immorality! “Every sin a person can commit is outside the body.” On the contrary, the person who is sexually immoral sins against his own body.

Ephesians 5:3-6

But sexual immorality and any impurity or greed should not even be heard of among you, as is proper for saints.

Revelation 21:8

But the cowards, unbelievers, vile, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars—their share will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Revelation 21:27

Nothing profane will ever enter it: no one who does what is vile or false, but only those written in the Lamb’s book of life.

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