Clean Body

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own,

Thou cleansest me with hyssop and I am clean, Washest me, and than snow I am whiter.

Having, then, these promises, beloved, may we cleanse ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God;

have ye not known that ye are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God doth dwell in you?

and there may not at all enter into it any thing defiling and doing abomination, and a lie, but--those written in the scroll of the life of the Lamb.

for this is the will of God--your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom, — read the full passage →

flee the whoredom; every sin--whatever a man may commit--is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

be diligent to present thyself approved to God--a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;

already ye are clean, because of the word that I have spoken to you;

who our sins himself did bear in his body, upon the tree, that to the sins having died, to the righteousness we may live; by whose stripes ye were healed,

and He saith, `If thou dost really hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God, and dost that which is right in His eyes, and hast hearkened to His commands, and kept all His statutes: none of the sickness which I laid on the Egyptians do I lay on thee, for I, Jehovah, am healing thee.

for the wages of the sin <FI>is<Fi> death, and the gift of God <FI>is<Fi> life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service;

The Visions of Isaiah son of Amoz, that he hath seen concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own, — read the full passage →

for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God--

`The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have <FI>it<Fi> abundantly.

God <FI>is<Fi> a Spirit, and those worshipping Him, in spirit and truth it doth behove to worship.'

For the lips of a priest preserve knowledge, And law they do seek from his mouth, For a messenger of Jehovah of Hosts he <FI>is<Fi> .

And your bonnets <FI>are<Fi> on your heads, And your shoes <FI>are<Fi> on your feet, Ye do not mourn nor do ye weep, And ye have wasted away for your iniquities, And ye have howled one unto another. — read the full passage →

`Glory in the highest to God, and upon earth peace, among men--good will.'

`Then shall the reign of the heavens be likened to ten virgins, who, having taken their lamps, went forth to meet the bridegroom; — read the full passage →

The thing that Isaiah son of Amoz hath seen concerning Judah and Jerusalem: — read the full passage →

And him who is weak in the faith receive ye--not to determinations of reasonings; — read the full passage →

And he is pierced for our transgressions, Bruised for our iniquities, The chastisement of our peace <FI>is<Fi> on him, And by his bruise there is healing to us.

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

A clean heart prepare for me, O God, And a right spirit renew within me.

and doth put the mitre on his head, and doth put on the mitre, over-against its front, the golden flower of the holy crown, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.

for ye were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

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

of all the clean beasts thou dost take to thee seven pairs, a male and its female; and of the beasts which are not clean two, a male and its female;

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light--we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;

how much more shall the blood of the Christ (who through the age-during Spirit did offer himself unblemished to God) purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

for the bodily exercise is unto little profit, and the piety is to all things profitable, a promise having of the life that now is, and of that which is coming;

Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;

And I have sprinkled over you clean water, And ye have been clean; From all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols, I do cleanse you.

A Psalm of David. Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> my shepherd, I do not lack, — read the full passage →

`Sons ye <FI>are<Fi> to Jehovah your God; ye do not cut yourselves, nor make baldness between your eyes for the dead; — read the full passage →

`And a cutting for the soul ye do not put in your flesh; and a writing, a cross-mark, ye do not put on you; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah.

and ye <FI>are<Fi> a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;

who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed <FI>it<Fi> with the bathing of the water in the saying,

and ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

have ye not known that ye are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God doth dwell in you? — read the full passage →

and now, why tarriest thou? having risen, baptize thyself, and wash away thy sins, calling upon the name of the Lord.

And the brethren immediately, through the night, sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea, who having come, went to the synagogue of the Jews; — read the full passage →

And the apostles and the brethren who are in Judea heard that also the nations did receive the word of God,

and <FI>there is<Fi> a voice again a second time unto him: `What God did cleanse, thou, declare not thou common;'

in which were all the four-footed beasts of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the creeping things, and the fowls of the heaven,

`Blind Pharisee! cleanse first the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside of them also may become clean.

These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven <FI>are<Fi> abominations to His soul. — read the full passage →

Every creeping thing that is alive, to you it is for food; as the green herb I have given to you the whole;

And Noah buildeth an altar to Jehovah, and taketh of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and causeth burnt-offerings to ascend on the altar;

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born out of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth; to him who did love us, and did bathe us from our sins in his blood,

beloved, concerning all things I desire thee to prosper, and to be in health, even as thy soul doth prosper,

also to which an antitype doth now save us--baptism, (not a putting away of the filth of flesh, but the question of a good conscience in regard to God,) through the rising again of Jesus Christ,

and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence--who are stumbling at the word, being unbelieving, --to which also they were set;

Wherefore having girded up the loins of your mind, being sober, hope perfectly upon the grace that is being brought to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ,

draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you; cleanse hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled!

religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation--unspotted to keep himself from the world.

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

For we--wilfully sinning after the receiving the full knowledge of the truth--no more for sins doth there remain a sacrifice,

may we draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having the hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having the body bathed with pure water;

who being the brightness of the glory, and the impress of His subsistence, bearing up also the all things by the saying of his might--through himself having made a cleansing of our sins, sat down at the right hand of the greatness in the highest,

(not by works that <FI>are<Fi> in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit,

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

from all appearance of evil abstain ye;

for this is the will of God--your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom, — read the full passage →

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, — read the full passage →

and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit,

become not, then, partakers with them,

it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body; there is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body;

but I chastise my body, and bring <FI>it<Fi> into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others--I myself may become disapproved.

I have known, and am persuaded, in the Lord Jesus, that nothing <FI>is<Fi> unclean of itself, except to him who is reckoning anything to be unclean--to that one <FI>it is<Fi> unclean;

much more, then, having been declared righteous now in his blood, we shall be saved through him from the wrath;

And Peter said, `Not so, Lord; because at no time did I eat anything common or unclean;'

And there was a certain man in Caesarea, by name Cornelius, a centurion from a band called Italian, — read the full passage →

Jesus saith to him, `He who hath been bathed hath no need save to wash his feet, but he is clean altogether; and ye are clean, but not all;'

`I am the living bread that came down out of the heaven; if any one may eat of this bread he shall live--to the age; and the bread also that I will give is my flesh, that I will give for the life of the world.'

this one came unto him by night, and said to him, `Rabbi, we have known that from God thou hast come--a teacher, for no one these signs is able to do that thou dost, if God may not be with him.'

but as many as did receive him to them he gave authority to become sons of God--to those believing in his name,

all things through him did happen, and without him happened not even one thing that hath happened.

And there were shepherds in the same region, lodging in the field, and keeping the night-watches over their flock,

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

do ye not understand that all that is going into the mouth doth pass into the belly, and into the drain is cast forth?

`Because of this I say to you, be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat, and what ye may drink, nor for your body, what ye may put on. Is not the life more than the nourishment, and the body than the clothing?

`And My people they direct between holy and common, and between unclean and clean they cause them to discern.

For, lo, Jehovah in fire cometh, And as a hurricane His chariots, To refresh in fury His anger, And His rebuke in flames of fire. — read the full passage →

Wash ye, make ye pure, Turn aside the evil of your doings, from before Mine eyes, Cease to do evil, learn to do good.

Who saith, `I have purified my heart, I have been cleansed from my sin?'

Wine <FI>is<Fi> a scorner--strong drink <FI>is<Fi> noisy, And any going astray in it is not wise.

A rejoicing heart doth good to the body, And a smitten spirit drieth the bone.

Sayings of pleasantness <FI>are<Fi> a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and healing to the bone.

Be not wise in thine own eyes, Fear Jehovah, and turn aside from evil. — read the full passage →

Trust unto Jehovah with all thy heart, And unto thine own understanding lean not.

To the Overseer. --A Psalm of David, in the coming in unto him of Nathan the prophet, when he hath gone in unto Bath-Sheba. Favour me, O God, according to Thy kindness, According to the abundance of Thy mercies, Blot out my transgressions. — read the full passage →