Bible Verses About Sin and Purity

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

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

If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

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

For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.

For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

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.

Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.

I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in 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.

I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

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

There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.

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

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

Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.

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

Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

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.

But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.

Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

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.