Matthew 15:20

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“These are what defile a man, but eating with unwashed hands does not defile him.””

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BSBPD

“These are what defile a man, but eating with unwashed hands does not defile him.””

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“these are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not the man.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“these are the things defiling the man; but to eat with unwashen hands doth not defile the man.'”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Matthew 15:20 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Matthew 15:2“Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands before they eat.”
  2. Matthew 23:25Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
  3. Mark 7:3Now in holding to the tradition of the elders, the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat until they wash their hands ceremonially.
  4. Luke 11:38But the Pharisee was surprised to see that Jesus did not first wash before the meal.
  5. 1 Corinthians 3:16Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
  6. 1 Corinthians 6:9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,
  7. 1 Corinthians 6:18Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.
  8. Ephesians 5:3But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.
  9. Revelation 21:8But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
  10. Revelation 21:27But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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