Matthew 15:20
These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
Webster 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
21Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the territories 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 of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
Luke 11:38And when the Pharisee saw it , he marveled that he had not first washed before dinner.
1 Corinthians 6:9Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
Ephesians 5:3But lewdness and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
Revelation 21:27And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie; but they 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 →