King James Version
Matthew 15:20 in the King James Version says “These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.” — study this verse from Matthew chapter 15 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.”
Matthew 15:20 · KJV
But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.
And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“the things which”
G3588the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in english idiom)
“the things which”
G3588the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in english idiom)
“the things which”
G3588the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in english idiom)
“hands”
G5495the hand (literally or figuratively (power); especially (by hebraism) a means or instrument)
“the things which”
G3588the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in english idiom)
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