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Matthew 15:20

Made Simple — Modern English Translation

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KJV ORIGINAL

These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.

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✦ MADE SIMPLE

These are the things that actually make you unclean on the inside — but eating without washing your hands first? That's not what makes you impure.

⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE

It's not about following every tiny rule perfectly — it's about what's actually in your heart.

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Nothing you put into your body from the outside world can make you spiritually unclean. It's what comes out of you — your words, your heart, your actions — that actually makes you unclean.

And he said to them, 'Are you really not getting this either? Don't you see that whatever goes into someone from the outside can't actually make them unclean?'

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