Matthew 15:20
Good News Translation
These are the things that make you unclean. But to eat without washing your hands as they say you should--this doesn't make you unclean."

New Revised Standard Version
These are what defile a person, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile.”

Contemporary English Version
These are what make you unclean. Eating without washing your hands will not make you unfit to worship God.

New American Bible
These are what defile a person, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
These are the things that defile a man. But to eat with unwashed hands doth not defile a man.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

which.

1 Corinthians 3:16,17 Know you not that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? . . .

1 Corinthians 6:9-11,18-20 Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: Neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers: . . .

Ephesians 5:3-6 But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not so much as be named among you, as becometh saints: . . .

Revelation 21:8,27 But the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and whoremongers and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, they shall have their portion in the pool burning with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. . . .

but.

Matthew 15:2 Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the ancients? For they wash not their hands when they eat bread.

Matthew 23:25,26 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you make clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but within you are full of rapine and uncleanness. . . .

Mark 7:3,4 For the Pharisees and all the Jews eat not without often washing their hands, holding the tradition of the ancients. . . .

Luke 11:38-40 And the Pharisee began to say, thinking within himself, why he was not washed before dinner. . . .

Context
What Defiles a Man
19For from the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies. 20These are the things that defile a man. But to eat with unwashed hands doth not defile a man. 21And Jesus went from thence, and retired into the coast of Tyre and Sidon.…
Cross References
Matthew 15:19
For from the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.

Matthew 15:21
And Jesus went from thence, and retired into the coast of Tyre and Sidon.

Matthew 15:19
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