Being Clean

Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

Now ye are clean through 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 the name of the Lord.

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

And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call 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 double minded.

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 in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

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

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

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just 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 Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

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

Purge 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 spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

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

Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

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

Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations. — read the full passage →

Ye are the children of the Lord 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 that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.

For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and 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 peculiar people, zealous of good works.

But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.

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

The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

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

For, behold, the Lord will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, 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 the Lord.

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; — read the full passage →

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

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

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, 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 are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

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

He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. — read the full passage →

Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto 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 shall ye eat.

Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or 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 meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.

And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,

Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should 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 profane, 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 unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. — read the full passage →

Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle.

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

And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and 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 fowl of the air, 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 heaven and the earth. — read the full passage →

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

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

There was a certain man in Cesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band, — read the full passage →

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

For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.

Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came 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 any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.

And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, 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 by the word of God and prayer.

Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? — read the full passage →

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

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

But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

The Lord 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;

The Lord is a man of war: the Lord is his name.

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

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

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

Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.

And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me;

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

Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?

Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?

Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and 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.

Let all things be done decently and in order.

It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife. — read the full passage →

And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. — read the full passage →

And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day. — read the full passage →

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, 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 the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

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

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

And the Lord 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 Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. — read the full passage →

I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.

Now these are the names of the tribes. From the north end to the coast of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath, Hazar–enan, the border of Damascus northward, to the coast of Hamath; for these are his sides east and west; a portion for Dan. — read the full passage →