Matthew 15:20
Modern Translations
New International Version
These are what defile a person; but eating with unwashed hands does not defile them."

New Living Translation
These are what defile you. Eating with unwashed hands will never defile you.”

English Standard Version
These are what defile a person. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone.”

Berean Study Bible
These are what defile a man, but eating with unwashed hands does not defile him.”

New American Standard Bible
These are the things that defile the person; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the person.”

NASB 1995
"These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man."

NASB 1977
“These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man.”

Amplified Bible
These are the things which defile and dishonor the man; but eating with [ceremonially] unwashed hands does not defile the man.”

Christian Standard Bible
These are the things that defile a person; but eating with unwashed hands does not defile a person.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
These are the things that defile a man, but eating with unwashed hands does not defile a man."

Contemporary English Version
These are what make you unclean. Eating without washing your hands will not make you unfit to worship God.

Good News Translation
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."

GOD'S WORD® Translation
These are the things that make a person unclean. But eating without washing one's hands doesn't make a person unclean."

International Standard Version
These are the things that make a person unclean. But eating with unwashed hands doesn't make a person unclean."

NET Bible
These are the things that defile a person; it is not eating with unwashed hands that defiles a person."
Classic Translations
King James Bible
These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.

New King James Version
These are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man.”

King James 2000 Bible
These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashed hands defiles not a man.

New Heart English Bible
These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man."

World English Bible
These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn't defile the man."

American King James Version
These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashed hands defiles not a man.

American Standard Version
these are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not the man.

A Faithful Version
These are the things that defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man."

Darby Bible Translation
these are the things which defile man; but the eating with unwashen hands does not defile man.

English Revised Version
these are the things which defile the man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not the man.

Webster's Bible Translation
These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
These are the things, which defile the man: but to eat with vnwashen hands, defileth not ye man.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
These are the thynges, which defyle a man: But to eate with vnwasshen handes, defyleth not a man.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
These are ye thinges that defyle a man. But to eate wt vnwasshen hondes, defyleth not a man.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
These are the thingis which defyle a man. But to eate with vnwesshen hondes defyleth not a man.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
these are the things defiling the man; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man.”

Berean Literal Bible
These are the things defiling the man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man."

Young's Literal Translation
these are the things defiling the man; but to eat with unwashen hands doth not defile the man.'

Smith's Literal Translation
These are the things polluting a man: but to eat with unwashed hands pollutes not a man.

Literal Emphasis Translation
These are the things defiling the man; however to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
These are the things that defile a man. But to eat with unwashed hands doth not defile a man.

Catholic Public Domain Version
These are the things that defile a man. But to eat without washing hands does not defile a man.”

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“These things are those that defile a man, but if a man will eat after not washing his hands, he is not defiled.”

Lamsa Bible
It is these that defile man; but if a man should eat when his hands are unwashed, he will not be defiled.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
These are the things that defile the man. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man.

Godbey New Testament
These are the things which defile the man: but to eat bread with unwashed hands does not defile the man.

Haweis New Testament
these are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashed hands doth not defile a man.

Mace New Testament
these are the things which defile a man: but to eat without washing one's hands, that does not defile a man.

Weymouth New Testament
These are the things which defile the man; but eating with unwashed hands does not defile."

Worrell New Testament
these are the things which defile the man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man."

Worsley New Testament
these defile a man, but to eat without washing the hands doth not defile him.
















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