20These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashed hands defiles not a man.


In Context

17 Do not you yet understand, that whatever enters in at the mouth goes into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?

18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.

19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

20 These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashed hands defiles not a man.

21 Then Jesus went there, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.

22 And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried to him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, you son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.

Matthew 15:20 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:20These are [the things] which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

15:20These are what make a man 'unclean'; but eating with unwashed hands does not make him 'unclean.' "

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

15:20These are the things that defile a man. But to eat with unwashed hands doth not defile a man.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

15:20these are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not the man.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:20these are the things which defile man; but the eating with unwashen hands does not defile man.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

15:20these are the things which defile the man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not the man.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:20These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:20These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn't defile the man.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

15:20these are the things defiling the man; but to eat with unwashen hands doth not defile the man.'