Bible Verses About Inner Cleanliness

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.

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

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

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.

Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

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

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.

And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

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.

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

Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.

For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

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

And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

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

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.

But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;

Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the Lord your God.

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

Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;

Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.

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.

All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

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

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

Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.

But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.

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.

And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.

Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.

With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.

Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

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

Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:

But if he wash them not, nor bathe his flesh; then he shall bear his iniquity.

For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.

This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.