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Matthew 15:20
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KJ21
these are the things which defile a man. But to eat with unwashed hands defileth not a man.”
ASV
these are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not the man.
AMP
These are the things which defile and dishonor the man; but eating with [ceremonially] unwashed hands does not defile the man.”
AMPC
These are what make a man unclean and defile [him]; but eating with unwashed hands does not make him unclean or defile [him].
BRG
These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
CSB
These are the things that defile a person; but eating with unwashed hands does not defile a person.”
CSBA
These are the things that defile a person; but eating with unwashed hands does not defile a person.’
CEB
These contaminate a person in God’s sight. But eating without washing hands doesn’t contaminate in God’s sight.”
CJB
These are what really make a person unclean, but eating without doing n’tilat-yadayim does not make a person unclean.”
CEV
These are what make you unclean. Eating without washing your hands will not make you unfit to worship God.
DARBY
these are the things which defile man; but the eating with unwashen hands does not defile man.
DLNT
These are the things defiling the person. But the eating with unwashed hands does not defile the person”.
DRA
These are the things that defile a man. But to eat with unwashed hands doth not defile a man.
ERV
These are the things that make people wrong. Eating without washing their hands will never make people unacceptable to God.”
EASY
It is these bad things that make people unclean. But if people eat food when they have not washed their hands in the right way, that will not make them unclean.’
EHV
These are the things that defile a person. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a person.”
ESV
These are what defile a person. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone.”
ESVUK
These are what defile a person. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone.”
EXB
These things make people ·unclean [polluted; defiled]; eating with unwashed hands does not make them ·unclean [polluted; defiled].”
GNV
These are the things which defile the man: but to eat with unwashed hands, defileth not the man.
GW
These are the things that make a person unclean. But eating without washing one’s hands doesn’t make a person unclean.”
GNT
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.”
HCSB
These are the things that defile a man, but eating with unwashed hands does not defile a man.”
ICB
These things make a person unclean. But eating with unwashed hands does not make him unclean.”
ISV
These are the things that make a person unclean. But eating with unwashed hands doesn’t make a person unclean.”
PHILLIPS
“Don’t you see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and then out of the body altogether? But the things that come out of a man’s mouth come from his heart and mind, and it is they that really make a man unclean. For it is from a man’s mind that evil thoughts arise—murder, adultery, lust, theft, perjury and blasphemy. These are the things which make a man unclean, not eating without washing his hands properly!”
JUB
these are the things which defile the man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man.
KJV
These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
AKJV
these are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
LSB
These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man.”
LEB
These are the things that defile a person. But eating with unwashed hands does not defile a person!”
TLB
These are what defile; but there is no spiritual defilement from eating without first going through the ritual of ceremonial handwashing!”
MSG
Jesus replied, “You, too? Are you being willfully stupid? Don’t you know that anything that is swallowed works its way through the intestines and is finally defecated? But what comes out of the mouth gets its start in the heart. It’s from the heart that we vomit up evil arguments, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, lies, and cussing. That’s what pollutes. Eating or not eating certain foods, washing or not washing your hands—that’s neither here nor there.”
MEV
These are the things which defile a man. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man.”
MOUNCE
These are the things that defile a person, · but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a person.”
NOG
These are the things that make a person unclean. But eating without washing one’s hands doesn’t make a person unclean.”
NABRE
These are what defile a person, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile.”
NASB
These are the things that defile the person; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the person.”
NASB1995
These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man.”
NCB
These are the things that defile a person, but to eat with unwashed hands does not make anyone unclean.”
NCV
These things make people unclean; eating with unwashed hands does not make them unclean.”
NET
These are the things that defile a person; it is not eating with unwashed hands that defiles a person.”
NIRV
Those are the things that make you ‘unclean.’ But eating without washing your hands does not make you ‘unclean.’ ”
NIV
These are what defile a person; but eating with unwashed hands does not defile them.”
NIVUK
These are what defile a person; but eating with unwashed hands does not defile them.’
NKJV
These are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man.”
NLV
These are the things that make the man unclean inside. It does not make a man sinful to eat with hands that have not been washed.”
NLT
These are what defile you. Eating with unwashed hands will never defile you.”
NMB
These are the things that defile a person. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a person.
NRSVA
These are what defile a person, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile.’
NRSVACE
These are what defile a person, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile.’
NRSVCE
These are what defile a person, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile.”
NRSVUE
These are what defile a person, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile.”
NTFE
These are the things that make someone unclean. But eating with unwashed hands doesn’t make a person unclean.”
OJB
These are the things making the man tameh, but eating with hands lacking the netilat yadayim (ritual of the washing of the hands, see Mt 27:24), this does not make the man tameh.
RGT
“These are the things which defile the man. But to eat with unwashed hands, does not defile the man.”
RSV
These are what defile a man; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man.”
RSVCE
These are what defile a man; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man.”
TLV
These are the things that make the man unholy; but to eat with unwashed hands does not make the man unholy.”
VOICE
These make you unclean—not eating with a hand you’ve not ritually purified with a splash of water and a prayer.
WEB
These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn’t defile the man.”
WE
These things make a person dirty. To eat with hands that are not washed does not make him dirty.'
WYC
These things it be that defoul a man; but to eat with hands not washed [soothly for to eat with hands unwashen], defouleth not a man.
YLT
these are the things defiling the man; but to eat with unwashen hands doth not defile the man.'
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