2 Corinthians 7:1

Paul's Joy At The Corinthians' Repentance

¹ Then having these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilements of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. ² Make room for us. We wronged no one, we corrupted no one, we overreached no one.

Fear of God

Flesh and Spirit

Let Us

Of the Flesh

O God

Sin

Proverbs 8:13

The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; I hate pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the wicked mouth.

2 Corinthians 6:17-18

Therefore come out from among them and be separated, says the Lord, and do not touch the unclean thing. And I will receive you

1 Peter 2:11

Dearly beloved, I exhort you as temporary residents and pilgrims to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,

1 John 3:3

And everyone who has this hope on him purifies himself, even as that One is pure.

2 Chronicles 19:9

And he charged them, saying, And you shall act in the fear of Jehovah, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.

Psalm 19:9

The fear of Jehovah is clean, enduring forever; the judgments of Jehovah are true and righteous altogether,

Psalm 51:10

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

Psalm 119:9

BETH: With what shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed according to Your Word.

Proverbs 16:6

By mercy and truth, iniquity is purged, and by the fear of Jehovah men turn away from evil.

Proverbs 20:9

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

Proverbs 30:12

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

Isaiah 1:16

Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes; cease to do evil;

Isaiah 55:7

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Jehovah, and He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.

Jeremiah 4:14

O Jerusalem, cleanse your heart from evil so that you may be saved. How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you?

Jeremiah 13:27

I have seen your adulteries, and your neighings, the wickedness of your fornication, and your abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! Will you not be made clean? How long will it still be?

Ezekiel 18:30-32

So I will judge you, O house of Israel, each one of you according to his ways, says the Lord Jehovah. Turn and be made to turn from all your sins; and iniquity shall not be your stumbling-block.

Ezekiel 36:25-26

And I will sprinkle clean waters on you, and you shall be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from your idols.

Matthew 5:8

Blessed are the pure in heart! For they shall see God.

Matthew 5:48

Therefore be perfect, even as your Father in Heaven is perfect.

Matthew 12:33

Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree corrupt and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.

Matthew 23:25-26

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside they are full of extortion and excess.

Luke 11:39-40

And the Lord said to him, Now you Pharisees make the outside of the cup and the platter clean, but your inward part is full of plunder and wickedness.

Acts 9:31

Then, indeed, the churches had rest throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria, and having been built up. And having gone on in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, they were increased.

Romans 5:20-11

But the Law entered so that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound,

1 Corinthians 6:20

for you are bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

2 Corinthians 1:20

For all the promises of God in Him are yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God by us.

Ephesians 2:3

among whom we also had our way of life in times past, in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

Ephesians 4:12-13

for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ.

Philippians 3:12-15

Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect, but I am pressing on, if I may lay hold of that for which I also was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

1 Thessalonians 3:13

in order to establish your hearts blameless in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.

1 Thessalonians 4:7

For God has not called us to uncleanness, but in sanctification.

1 Thessalonians 5:23

And may the God of peace Himself sanctify you, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blamelessly at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Titus 2:11-14

For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men,

Hebrews 4:1

Therefore, a promise being left to enter into His rest, let us fear lest any of you should seem to come short of it.

Hebrews 12:23

to the general assembly and church of the first-born who are written in Heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

Hebrews 12:28

Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear,

James 4:8

Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners; and purify your hearts, double-minded ones.

1 Peter 1:22

Purifying your souls in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to unfeigned love of the brothers, love one another fervently out of a pure heart,

1 Peter 5:10

But the God of all grace, He calling us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little, He will perfect, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.

2 Peter 1:4-8

through which He has given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, so that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

1 John 1:7

But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.

1 John 1:9

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.