Mark 7:15
Modern Translations
New International Version
Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them."

New Living Translation
It’s not what goes into your body that defiles you; you are defiled by what comes from your heart.”

English Standard Version
There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.”

Berean Study Bible
Nothing that enters a man from the outside can defile him; but the things that come out of a man, these are what defile him.”

New American Standard Bible
there is nothing outside the person which can defile him if it goes into him; but the things which come out of the person are what defile the person.”

NASB 1995
there is nothing outside the man which can defile him if it goes into him; but the things which proceed out of the man are what defile the man.

NASB 1977
there is nothing outside the man which going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are what defile the man.

Amplified Bible
there is nothing outside a man [such as food] which by going into him can defile him [morally or spiritually]; but the things which come out of [the heart of] a man are what defile and dishonor him.

Christian Standard Bible
Nothing that goes into a person from outside can defile him but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Nothing that goes into a person from outside can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.

Good News Translation
There is nothing that goes into you from the outside which can make you ritually unclean. Rather, it is what comes out of you that makes you unclean."

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Nothing that goes into a person from the outside can make him unclean. It's what comes out of a person that makes him unclean.

International Standard Version
Nothing that goes into a person from the outside can make him unclean. It's what comes out of a person that makes a person unclean.

NET Bible
There is nothing outside of a person that can defile him by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles him."
Classic Translations
King James Bible
There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.

New King James Version
There is nothing that enters a man from outside which can defile him; but the things which come out of him, those are the things that defile a man.

King James 2000 Bible
There is nothing from outside a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.

New Heart English Bible
There is nothing from outside of the person, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the person are what defile the person."

World English Bible
There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.

American King James Version
There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.

American Standard Version
there is nothing from without the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.

A Faithful Version
There is nothing that enters into a man from outside which is able to defile him; but the things that come out from within him, those are the things which defile a man.

Darby Bible Translation
There is nothing from outside a man entering into him which can defile him; but the things which go out from him, those it is which defile the man.

English Revised Version
there is nothing from without the man, that going into him can defile him: but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.

Webster's Bible Translation
There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him, can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
There is nothing without a man, that can defile him, when it entreth into him: but the things which proceede out of him, are they which defile the man.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
There is nothyng without a man, that can defyle hym, when it entreth into hym: But the thynges whiche proceade out of a man, those are they that defyle the man.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
There is nothinge without a man, that can defyle him, whan it entreth in to him. But that goeth out of him, that is it that maketh the man vncleane.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
There is no thinge with out a man that can defyle him when it entreth into him: but thoo thinges which procede out of him are those which defyle ye man.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
there is nothing from outside the man entering into him that is able to defile him, but the things coming out from him, those are the things defiling the man.

Berean Literal Bible
There is nothing from outside the man entering into him which is able to defile him; but the things proceeding out of the man are the things defiling the man."

Young's Literal Translation
there is nothing from without the man entering into him that is able to defile him, but the things coming out from him, those are the things defiling the man.

Smith's Literal Translation
There is nothing from without a man, entering into him, which can defile him: but things coming out from him, these are the things polluting the man.

Literal Emphasis Translation
There is nothing outside a man entering into him, which is able to defile him; but the things proceeding from out of a man are the things defiling a man.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
There is nothing from without a man that entering into him, can defile him. But the things which come from a man, those are they that defile a man.

Catholic Public Domain Version
There is nothing from outside a man which, by entering into him, is able to defile him. But the things which procede from a man, these are what pollute a man.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“There is nothing outside of a man that enters into him that can defile him, but the thing that proceeds from him, that is what defiles the man.”

Lamsa Bible
There is nothing outside of a man, if it should enter into him, which can defile him; but what goes out of him, that defiles the man.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
There is nothing with out that, by entering into a man, can defile him. But those things which come out of the man, defile him.

Godbey New Testament
There is nothing without a man coming into him, which is competent to defile him: but those things coming out from him, these are the things which defile the man.

Haweis New Testament
There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him, can make him unclean: but the things which come out from him, these are the things which make a man unclean.

Mace New Testament
there is nothing from without, that entring into a man can defile him: but that which originally proceeds from the man, is what defiles him.

Weymouth New Testament
There is nothing outside a man which entering him can make him unclean; but it is the things which come out of a man that make him unclean."

Worrell New Testament
there is nothing from without the man, that, entering into him, can defile him; but the things proceeding out of the man are those that defile the man."

Worsley New Testament
Hear me all of you, and understand, There is nothing without a man, which entring into him can defile him: but the things proceeding from him are those which defile a man.
















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