Matthew 15:20
These are the things that defile a man. But to eat with unwashed hands doth not defile a man.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
In Context
21And Jesus went from thence, and retired into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.
Cross References
Matthew 23:25Woe 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.
Luke 11:38And the Pharisee began to say, thinking within himself, why he was not washed before dinner.
1 Corinthians 6:9Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers,
Ephesians 5:3But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not so much as be named among you, as becometh saints:
Revelation 21:27There shall not enter into it any thing defiled, or that worketh abomination or maketh a lie, but they that are written in the book of life of the Lamb.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 15:11-21
What Defileth a Man. 10 And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand: 11 Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man. 12 Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying? 13 But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up. 14 Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead… Read the whole commentary →