Mat 15:20
These are {the things} which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
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For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash {their} hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders. {oft: or, diligently: in the original, with the fist: Theophylact, up to the elbow}
And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither {whatsoever} worketh abomination, or {maketh} a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and {that} the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
Woe unto 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.
And when the Pharisee saw {it}, he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner.
Know 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,
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they {are} unclean to you.
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body {is} not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. {Meats: not flesh only, but food of any kind}