Bible Verses About Health and Cleanliness
This collection includes 50 passages about Health and 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.
And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.
Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the Lord your God.
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.
But if he wash them not, nor bathe his flesh; then he shall bear his iniquity.
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.
Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;
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.
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.
To teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is the law of leprosy.
Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.
Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face;
If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the masterโs use, and prepared unto every good work.
And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee.
Wherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you.
Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
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.
And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
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.
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.
Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die not: and it shall be a statute for ever to them, even to him and to his seed throughout their generations.
Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes,
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.
And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even.
But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth.
With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.
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