Matthew 15:20
These are the things which defile the man: but to eat bread with unwashed hands does not defile the man.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
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 having come out thence, departed into the regions of Tyre and Sidon.
Cross References
Matthew 23:25Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you purify the exterior of the cup and the plate, and within they are full of extortion and impurity.
Luke 11:38And the Pharisee seeing, was astonished because He was not first baptized before dinner.
1 Corinthians 6:9Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? He not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor Sodomites,
Ephesians 5:3But all fornication, and uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be named among you, as it becomes saints;
Revelation 21:27And nothing unclean, and the one doing abomination, and falsehood, can at all enter into it: none except those who 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 →