Being Clean

let us draw near with a true heart in fulness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience: and having our body washed with pure water,

Already ye are clean because of the word which I have spoken unto you.

Create in me a clean heart, O God; And renew a right spirit within me.

And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on his name.

For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more a sacrifice for sins,

And a voice came unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, make not thou common.

Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded.

And God spake all these words, saying, — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.

I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself: save that to him who accounteth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

And Jehovah spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them, — read the full passage →

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

And I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish unto God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, And cleanse me from my sin.

Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee seven and seven, the male and his female; and of the beasts that are not clean two, the male and his female:

But him that is weak in faith receive ye, yet not for decision of scruples. — read the full passage →

Ye are the children of Jehovah your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. — read the full passage →

Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup and of the platter, that the outside thereof may become clean also.

For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another. — read the full passage →

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a people for his own possession, zealous of good works.

But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common and unclean.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;

which also after a true likeness doth now save you, even baptism, not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the interrogation of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ;

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing, be put away from you, with all malice: — read the full passage →

For, behold, Jehovah will come with fire, and his chariots shall be like the whirlwind; to render his anger with fierceness, and his rebuke with flames of fire. — read the full passage →

Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am Jehovah.

But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

who being the effulgence of his glory, and the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had made purification of sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

not by works done in righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →

For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

And such were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that disbelieveth shall be condemned.

Blessed are they that are perfect in the way, Who walk in the law of Jehovah. — read the full passage →

Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: According to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. — read the full passage →

Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that may ye eat.

Who shall ascend into the hill of Jehovah? And who shall stand in his holy place? — read the full passage →

And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword. — read the full passage →

Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you; as the green herb have I given you all.

and from Jesus Christ, who isthe faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loveth us, and loosed us from our sins by his blood;

who his own self bare our sins in his body upon the tree, that we, having died unto sins, might live unto righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed.

I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.

And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: According to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. — read the full passage →

Who is the King of glory? Jehovah strong and mighty, Jehovah mighty in battle.

Jehovah is my shepherd; I shall not want. — read the full passage →

and that ye may make a distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean;

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own;

Nowthere wasa certain man in Cæsarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of the band called the Italian band, — read the full passage →

Jesus saith to him, He that is bathed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all.

for there is born to you this day in the city of David a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord.

And there are gathered together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, who had come from Jerusalem, — read the full passage →

I am clean, without transgression; I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me:

Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself: thou mayest give it unto the sojourner that is within thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto a foreigner: for thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.

And Noah builded an altar unto Jehovah, and took of every clean beast, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt-offerings on the altar.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

for it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.

casting down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own; — read the full passage →

Now the apostles and the brethren that were in Judæa heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.

But as many as received him, to them gave he the right to become children of God, even to them that believe on his name:

But of that day and hour knoweth no one, not even the angels of heaven, neither the Son, but the Father only.

Jehovah thy God will raise up unto thee a prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;

Jehovah is a man of war: Jehovah is his name.

Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which Jehovah God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden? — read the full passage →

God is faithful, through whom ye were called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

Now the apostles and the brethren that were in Judæa heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. — read the full passage →

wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts and creeping things of the earth and birds of the heaven.

and I appoint unto you a kingdom, even as my Father appointed unto me,

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and the evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth that which is evil: for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.

because it goeth not into his heart, but into his belly, and goeth out into the draught? This he said, making all meats clean.

Perceive ye not, that whatsoever goeth into the mouth passeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?

Jesus said unto him, Again it is written, Thou shalt not make trial of the Lord thy God.

Behold, a day of Jehovah cometh, when thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. — read the full passage →

And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

But let all things be done decently and in order.

It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that oneof you hath his father’s wife. — read the full passage →

And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Beroea: who when they were come thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. — read the full passage →

For this is the will of my Father, that every one that beholdeth the Son, and believeth on him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. — read the full passage →

But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

They shall come with weeping; and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way wherein they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first-born.

And they made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death; although he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

Praise ye Jehovah. Praise God in his sanctuary: Praise him in the firmament of his power. — read the full passage →

And Jehovah spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying, — read the full passage →

but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanseth us from all sin. — read the full passage →

I saw in the night-visions, and, behold, there came with the clouds of heaven one like unto a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.

Now these are the names of the tribes: From the north end, beside the way of Hethlon to the entrance of Hamath, Hazar-enan at the border of Damascus, northward beside Hamath (and they shall have their sides east and west), Dan, one portion. — read the full passage →