16 Bible Verses About defilement

The soul, fashioned for union with the Holy, finds its true health in purity. Scripture unveils the subtle, yet profound, ways in which our inner sanctuary can be compromised, not merely by outward acts, but by the heart's hidden currents. To study these divine words on defilement is to hold a mirror to the self, discerning the impurities that obstruct grace. This sacred knowledge is not given for condemnation, but for illumination, guiding us toward the cleansing light that restores our capacity for genuine holiness and communion with the Unblemished One, whose truth sets us free from all that soils the spirit.

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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.

Bible Verses About defilement

And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.

Genesis 34:2KJV

And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister:

Genesis 34:13KJV

The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.

Genesis 34:27KJV

Or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever uncleanness it be that a man shall be defiled withal, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty.

Leviticus 5:3KJV

Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby.

Leviticus 11:43KJV

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.

Leviticus 11:44KJV

All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be.

Leviticus 13:46KJV

Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour’s wife, to defile thyself with her.

Leviticus 18:20KJV

Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.

Leviticus 18:23KJV

Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:

Leviticus 18:24KJV

That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.

Leviticus 18:28KJV

That which dieth of itself, or is torn with beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself therewith: I am the Lord.

Leviticus 22:8KJV

But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband:

Numbers 5:20KJV

And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.

Numbers 5:27KJV

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.

Numbers 35:33KJV

Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.

Deuteronomy 22:9KJV

The true source of defilement, as these Scriptures underscore, lies not primarily in outward touch or ritual transgression, but within the hidden chambers of the heart. It is the thought conceived, the desire harbored, the intention permitted entry, which truly stains the soul's purity before God. To guard oneself, then, is a constant, interior vigilance. One must cultivate the inner garden, pruning away the weeds of corrupt impulses and nurturing the seeds of virtue, ever seeking the cleansing light of grace. The significance is clear: authentic holiness springs from within, demanding a relentless attention to the state of one's soul. This interior battle for purity is the fundamental spiritual work, without which outward actions remain hollow and the spirit grows dimmed. Let us therefore seek the divine aid to keep the wellspring of our being clear and undefiled.