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Matthew 15:20
These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn’t defile the man.”
Matthew 15:20 · World English Bible
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Matthew 15:20 in other translations
These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
These are what defile a man, but eating with unwashed hands does not defile him.”
These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man."
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In context
17 Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly and then out of the body?
18 But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man.
19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
20 These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn’t defile the man.”
21 Jesus went out from there and withdrew into the region of Tyre and Sidon.
22 Behold, a Canaanite woman came out from those borders and cried, saying, “Have mercy on me, Lord, you son of David! My daughter is severely possessed by a demon!”
23 But he answered her not a word. His disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away; for she cries after us.”
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