Matthew 15:20
These are the things which defile a man; but to eat with unwashed hands defileth not a man.
Noyes Bible
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, going from thence, withdrew to the parts of Tyre and Sidon.
Cross References
Matthew 23:25Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and the platter, but within they are full of robbery and licentiousness.
Luke 11:38And the Pharisee, seeing it, wondered that he did not bathe before dinner.
1 Corinthians 6:9Know ye not, that wrongdoers shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
Ephesians 5:3But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints,
Revelation 21:27And there shall not enter into it anything unclean, or that worketh abomination and falsehood; but only they that are written in the Lamb's book of life.
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 →