100 Bible Verses About Spiritual Cleansing
Bible verses about Spiritual Cleansing
Discover the transformative power of spiritual cleansing through the wisdom of the Bible. These verses illuminate the path to purify our hearts and minds, washing away the stains of sin and negativity that weigh us down. Understanding spiritual cleansing through scripture allows us to embrace God's grace and forgiveness, fostering a deeper connection with Him. By studying these passages, we learn how to actively participate in our own spiritual renewal, inviting the Holy Spirit to cleanse us from within. Let these verses be your guide as you seek a closer, more purified relationship with the Divine.
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Leviticus 13:46 (KJV)
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.
Cleanse Your Soul: Bible Verses for Spiritual Renewal
Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:
But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
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.
Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
And the priest shall look on him the seventh day: and, behold, if the plague in his sight be at a stay, and the plague spread not in the skin; then the priest shall shut him up seven days more:
From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
And the idols he shall utterly abolish.
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:
Behold, I build an house to the name of the Lord my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the Lord our God. This is an ordinance for ever to Israel.
Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
But if the scall spread much in the skin after his cleansing;
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.
And he shall bring them on the eighth day for his cleansing unto the priest, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, before the Lord.
Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.
Then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days:
For, lo, thine enemies, O Lord, for, lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.
For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.
But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall be clean.
And every thing that she lieth upon in her separation shall be unclean: every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean.
For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the Lord.
Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself.
And he shall make an atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he shall make an atonement for the tabernacle of the congregation, and for the altar, and he shall make an atonement for the priests, and for all the people of the congregation.
Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord.
By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the Lord men depart from evil.
And the priest shall make an atonement for the soul that sinneth ignorantly, when he sinneth by ignorance before the Lord, to make an atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him.
Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
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.
Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.
Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.
But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.
Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.
Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do.
Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you.
And for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the pattern of the chariot of the cherubims, that spread out their wings, and covered the ark of the covenant of the Lord.
Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow: for thus saith the Lord God of Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among you.
And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer.
For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away.
And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.
And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the Lord, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the Lord, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.
How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.
And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
Then I commanded, and they cleansed the chambers: and thither brought I again the vessels of the house of God, with the meat offering and the frankincense.
And it grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber.
And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name’s sake.
If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.
For there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the Lord.
And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them.
O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.
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.
And all the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.
For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.
For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.
And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
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.
He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;
But if he wash them not, nor bathe his flesh; then he shall bear his iniquity.
And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.
That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.
In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord.
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes,
Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters.
And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:
And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.
Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense,
And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end: even of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof.
And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.
And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words.
And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the Lord.
Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
Through the powerful imagery and profound wisdom contained within these verses, the concept of spiritual cleansing emerges as a vital aspect of the Christian faith. From confessing sins and seeking forgiveness to meditating on God's word and allowing the Holy Spirit to purify our hearts, the Bible provides a roadmap for shedding spiritual impurities. These scriptures underscore the transformative power of divine grace and the ongoing need for vigilance in maintaining a pure and righteous walk with God. We are encouraged to reflect on these verses, allowing them to penetrate our hearts and motivate us towards continuous self-examination and a renewed commitment to spiritual purity. Applying these principles in our daily lives will undoubtedly lead to a deeper relationship with God and a more fulfilling experience of His boundless love and grace. Embrace the journey of spiritual cleansing, and experience the peace and joy that comes from a heart washed clean.