Bible Verses About Cleanliness
This collection includes 50 passages about Cleanliness. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.
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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.
Scripture Passages
For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
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.
And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;
These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
But if he wash them not, nor bathe his flesh; then he shall bear his iniquity.
And the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even.
Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the Lord.
Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the Lord your God.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes,
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.
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the Lord God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.
If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the masterβs use, and prepared unto every good work.
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.
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.
Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
For I am the Lord your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of purifying upon them, and let them shave all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and so make themselves clean.
But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face;
And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.
Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
The soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean until even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he wash his flesh with water.
And whosoever toucheth any thing that was under him shall be unclean until the even: and he that beareth any of those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes; and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes.
But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you.
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.
But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
And purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goatsβ hair, and all things made of wood.
And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come into the camp.
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