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


In Context

17 "Don't you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body?

18 But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these make a man 'unclean.'

19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.

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

21 Leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon.

22 A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, "Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is suffering terribly from demon- possession."

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 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.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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