Bible Verses About Spiritual Cleanliness
This collection includes 50 passages about Spiritual 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.
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.
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.
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.
That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;
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.
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 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.
But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
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.
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
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.
And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
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.
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.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes,
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
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.
Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the 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.
These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
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.
That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.
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 that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
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