100 Bible Verses About Cleansing
Bible verses about Cleansing
The concept of cleansing runs deep within the tapestry of scripture, revealing God's profound desire for our wholeness and purity. Exploring Bible verses about cleansing offers us a transformative journey, unveiling the path to spiritual renewal and freedom from the stains of sin and worldliness. Through understanding God's provision for cleansing, we discover the power of repentance, forgiveness, and the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit. These verses illuminate the vital connection between a clean heart and a close relationship with our Creator, offering hope and guidance as we strive to live a life that reflects His radiant grace.
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Leviticus 13:29 (KJV)
If a man or woman have a plague upon the head or the beard;
Bible Verses: Cleansing, Forgiveness, and Renewal
Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy: and when there is sprinkled of the blood thereof upon any garment, thou shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkled in the holy place.
And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the Lord; the plague is begun.
And the priest shall make an atonement for him before the Lord: and it shall be forgiven him for any thing of all that he hath done in trespassing therein.
And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases;
And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water:
And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water:
Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.
And he shall lay his hand upon the head of it, and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle the blood thereof upon the altar round about.
Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:
And he shall make an atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation, that remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness.
And if the priest look, and, behold, the plague be somewhat dark after the washing of it; then he shall rend it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof:
Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
But if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not, it is a burning boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.
And he slew it; and Moses took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured the blood at the bottom of the altar, and sanctified it, to make reconciliation upon it.
Then the priest shall consider: and, behold, if the leprosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague: it is all turned white: he is clean.
And he sprinkled thereof upon the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all his vessels, both the laver and his foot, to sanctify them.
And the idols he shall utterly abolish.
One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.
And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the Lord, and the other lot for the scapegoat.
And one kid of the goats, to make an atonement for you.
And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
Or if the raw flesh turn again, and be changed unto white, he shall come unto the priest;
And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the Lord:
And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shalt wash them with water.
The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.
And thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement: and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou hast made an atonement for it, and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it.
And for the leprosy of a garment, and of a house,
And the priest shall offer them, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the Lord for his issue.
And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face:
And the priest shall put of the oil that is in his hand upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the place of the blood of the trespass offering:
And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was cast down, and the grove was cut down that was by it, and the second bullock was offered upon the altar that was built.
And he put all upon Aaron’s hands, and upon his sons’ hands, and waved them for a wave offering before the Lord.
When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow in Salmon.
And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water.
Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
One kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the sin offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and the meat offering of it, and their drink offerings.
One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.
And he shall sprinkle of the blood of the sin offering upon the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be wrung out at the bottom of the altar: it is a sin offering.
And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make an atonement for him, for that he sinned by the dead, and shall hallow his head that same day.
And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and wash them with water.
And he that sitteth on any thing whereon he sat that hath the issue shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
But if the scall spread much in the skin after his cleansing;
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.
Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements: once in the year shall he make atonement upon it throughout your generations: it is most holy unto the Lord.
And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering.
And they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth thereon:
If a man or woman have a plague upon the head or the beard;
And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make an atonement for himself, and for his house, and shall kill the bullock of the sin offering which is for himself:
And if the burnt sacrifice for his offering to the Lord be of fowls, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves, or of young pigeons.
And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times.
This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest:
And Eleazar the priest took the brasen censers, wherewith they that were burnt had offered; and they were made broad plates for a covering of the altar:
And ye shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord; thirteen young bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year; they shall be without blemish:
And they presented the burnt offering unto him, with the pieces thereof, and the head: and he burnt them upon the altar.
And there they left their images, and David and his men burned them.
Or if his sin, which he hath sinned, come to his knowledge: then he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he hath sinned.
This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke:
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.
And he that burneth them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.
And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the Lord your God.
And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and slay the sin offering in the place of the burnt offering.
And unto the children of Israel thou shalt speak, saying, Take ye a kid of the goats for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both of the first year, without blemish, for a burnt offering;
And the Levites were purified, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them as an offering before the Lord; and Aaron made an atonement for them to cleanse them.
And he shall carry forth the bullock without the camp, and burn him as he burned the first bullock: it is a sin offering for the congregation.
And Moses said unto Aaron and to his sons, Boil the flesh at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and there eat it with the bread that is in the basket of consecrations, as I commanded, saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat it.
And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the Lord; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,
But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.
And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the plague be turned into white; then the priest shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague: he is clean.
And the priest shall make an atonement for him as touching his sin that he hath sinned in one of these, and it shall be forgiven him: and the remnant shall be the priest’s, as a meat offering.
And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid him on the wood, and said, Fill four barrels with water, and pour it on the burnt sacrifice, and on the wood.
And he shall wash his flesh with water in the holy place, and put on his garments, and come forth, and offer his burnt offering, and the burnt offering of the people, and make an atonement for himself, and for the people.
Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
And the priest that maketh him clean shall present the man that is to be made clean, and those things, before the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:
Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat:
For thus saith the Lord to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
And the priest that is anointed shall take of the bullock’s blood, and bring it to the tabernacle of the congregation:
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
When they go into the tabernacle of the congregation, they shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn offering made by fire unto the Lord:
And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague: and, behold, if the scall spread not, and there be in it no yellow hair, and the scall be not in sight deeper than the skin;
And he set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and put water there, to wash withal.
By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.
And he shall bring them unto the priest, who shall offer that which is for the sin offering first, and wring off his head from his neck, but shall not divide it asunder:
The brasen altar, and his grate of brass, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot,
But if the scab spread much abroad in the skin, after that he hath been seen of the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen of the priest again:
And the fat of the sin offering shall he burn upon the altar.
But if he wash them not, nor bathe his flesh; then he shall bear his iniquity.
Who shall offer it before the Lord, and make an atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This is the law for her that hath born a male or a female.
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the Lord.
Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.
Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy.
So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
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.
The Bible consistently presents cleansing as both a physical and spiritual necessity. These verses highlight the multifaceted nature of purification, from ritualistic washings in the Old Testament symbolizing outward cleanliness, to the profound spiritual cleansing offered through faith in Jesus Christ's sacrifice. True cleansing extends beyond mere hygiene; it involves repentance, forgiveness, and a renewed commitment to righteous living. Reflecting on these passages encourages introspection, prompting us to examine our hearts and actions, identifying areas where we need divine intervention. Ultimately, the message is one of hope: regardless of past transgressions, a path to purity and wholeness is available through God's grace. Embrace the transformative power of cleansing, allowing it to shape your life into a reflection of His holiness.