Being Clean

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

You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

A voice came to him again the second time, “What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean.”

Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

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

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers 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.

Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them, — read the full passage →

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

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

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

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

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

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.

You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — read the full passage →

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

You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various 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 for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

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

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice. — read the full passage →

For, behold, Yahweh 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 →

“‘You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am Yahweh.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

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

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, 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, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law. — read the full passage →

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. — read the full passage →

Whatever parts the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and chews the cud among the animals, that you may eat.

Who may ascend to Yahweh’s hill? Who may stand in his holy place? — read the full passage →

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

Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood;

who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.”

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 pure. I am clean and without sin?”

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. — read the full passage →

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

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

You are to make a distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean.

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 sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on 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 unstained by the world.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment, — read the full passage →

Jesus said to him, “Someone who has bathed only needs to have his feet washed, but is completely clean. You are clean, but not all of you.”

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

Then the Pharisees, and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

‘I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.

You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself. You may give it to the foreigner living among you who is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner; for you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, 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.

throwing 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 don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →

Now the apostles and the brothers who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven,but my Father only.

Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from your midst, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him.

Yahweh is a man of war. Yahweh is his name.

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’” — read the full passage →

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

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

in which were all kinds of four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, reptiles, and birds of the sky.

I confer on you a kingdom, even as my Father conferred on me,

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.

because it doesn’t go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, thus purifying all foods?”

Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and then out of the body?

Jesus said to him, “Again, it is written, ‘You shall not test the Lord, your God.’”

Behold, a day of Yahweh comes, when your plunder will be divided in your midst. — read the full passage →

It shall happen, that whoever will not listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

Let all things be done decently and in order.

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife. — read the full passage →

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.” — read the full passage →

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

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

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 Yah! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in his heavens for his acts of power! — read the full passage →

Yahweh spoke to 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 with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin. — read the full passage →

I saw in the night visions, and behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like 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 →