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Bible Verses About Cleansing

This collection includes 50 passages about Cleansing. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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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.

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Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

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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.

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

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That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

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And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go shew yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean.

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For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:

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And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.

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

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And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the Lord, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the Lord into the court of the house of the Lord. And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook Kidron.

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

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Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it; and they shall consecrate themselves.

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And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.

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Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

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Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

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If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.

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And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin.

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And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the Lord, to cleanse the house of the Lord.

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And the Lord said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes,

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Then there arose a question between some of John’s disciples and the Jews about purifying.

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Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.

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For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

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He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.

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But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the Lord: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.

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And for an unclean person they shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel:

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And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean: and after that he shall come into the camp, and shall tarry abroad out of his tent seven days.

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Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.

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For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the Lord.

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And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.

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And when he that hath an issue is cleansed of his issue; then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.

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Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.

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And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;

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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.

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Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them.

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And thou shalt anoint the laver and his foot, and sanctify it.

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