Mark 7:20
Modern Translations
New International Version
He went on: "What comes out of a person is what defiles them.

New Living Translation
And then he added, “It is what comes from inside that defiles you.

English Standard Version
And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him.

Berean Study Bible
He continued: “What comes out of a man, that is what defiles him.

New American Standard Bible
And He was saying, “That which comes out of the person, that is what defiles the person.

NASB 1995
And He was saying, "That which proceeds out of the man, that is what defiles the man.

NASB 1977
And He was saying, “That which proceeds out of the man, that is what defiles the man.

Amplified Bible
And He said, “Whatever comes from [the heart of] a man, that is what defiles and dishonors him.

Christian Standard Bible
And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Then He said, "What comes out of a person--that defiles him.

Contemporary English Version
Then Jesus said: What comes from your heart is what makes you unclean.

Good News Translation
And he went on to say, "It is what comes out of you that makes you unclean.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He continued, "It's what comes out of a person that makes him unclean.

International Standard Version
Then he continued, "It's what comes out of a person that makes a person unclean,

NET Bible
He said, "What comes out of a person defiles him.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.

New King James Version
And He said, “What comes out of a man, that defiles a man.

King James 2000 Bible
And he said, That which came out of the man, that defiles the man.

New Heart English Bible
He said, "That which proceeds out of the person, that defiles the person.

World English Bible
He said, "That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man.

American King James Version
And he said, That which comes out of the man, that defiles the man.

American Standard Version
And he said, That which proceedeth out of the man, that defileth the man.

A Faithful Version
And He said, "That which springs forth from within a man, that defiles the man.

Darby Bible Translation
And he said, That which goes forth out of the man, that defiles the man.

English Revised Version
And he said, That which proceedeth out of the man, that defileth the man.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Then he sayd, That which commeth out of man, that defileth man.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
And he sayde: That which commeth out of a man, defyleth the man.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
And he sayde: The thinge that goeth out of the man,

Tyndale Bible of 1526
And he sayde: yt defileth a ma which cometh oute of a man.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And He said, “That which is coming out from the man, that defiles the man;

Berean Literal Bible
And He was saying, "That going forth out of the man, that defiles the man.

Young's Literal Translation
And he said -- 'That which is coming out from the man, that doth defile the man;

Smith's Literal Translation
And he said, That going out of a man, that pollutes a man.

Literal Emphasis Translation
And He said, That going out of a man, that there defiles a man.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
But he said that the things which come out from a man, they defile a man.

Catholic Public Domain Version
“But,” he said “the things which go out from a man, these pollute a man.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“But the thing that proceeds from a man, that defiles the man.”

Lamsa Bible
It is what goes out of man which defiles the man.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
And he said: What comes out of the man, is that which defiles the man.

Godbey New Testament
And He said, Everything proceeding out from the man, that defiles the man.

Haweis New Testament
But, said he, what cometh out of a man, that makes a man unclean.

Mace New Testament
but, said he, that which proceeds from a man, is what defiles him:

Weymouth New Testament
"What comes out of a man," He added, "that it is which makes him unclean.

Worrell New Testament
And He said, "That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man.

Worsley New Testament
But said He, What cometh out of a man, that defileth the man;
















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