15 Bible Verses about Cleanliness
Most Relevant Verses
Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil;
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
Remove the sin in me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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.
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you. I am the LORD.
Thou shalt have a place also outside the camp where thou shalt go forth abroad; and thou shalt have a stake among thy weapons; and it shall be when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig with it and shalt turn back and cover thy excrement; for the LORD thy God walks in the midst of thy camp to deliver thee and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore, shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee and turn away from thee.
And I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be cleansed from all your filthiness, and from all your idols I will cleanse you.
Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter that the outside of them may be clean also.
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have communion with him in the midst of us, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son cleanses us from all sin.
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are honest, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, exercise yourselves in these things.
From Thematic Bible
Ablution » Cleanliness » Examples of
Let a little water, I pray you, be brought and wash your feet and rest yourselves under a tree;
And the man brought the men into Joseph's house and gave them water, and they washed their feet, and he gave their asses fodder.
And Moses went down from the mount unto the people and sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes.
Then David arose from the earth and washed and anointed himself and changed his clothes and came into the house of the LORD and worshipped. Then he came to his own house; and when he asked, they set bread before him, and he ate.
(For the Pharisees and all the Jews, unless they wash their hands often, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.
Cleanliness » Encouraged
let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts purified from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water;
Therefore, thou shalt wash thyself and anoint thyself and put thy raiment upon thee and go down to the threshingfloor, but do not make thyself known unto the man until he shall have finished eating and drinking.
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:
After this the priest shall look on him again the seventh day and see if the plague has darkened and that the plague is not spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean; it is but a scab, and he shall wash his clothes and be clean.
Cleanliness » Examples of
Let a little water, I pray you, be brought and wash your feet and rest yourselves under a tree;
And the man brought the men into Joseph's house and gave them water, and they washed their feet, and he gave their asses fodder.
And Moses went down from the mount unto the people and sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes.
Then David arose from the earth and washed and anointed himself and changed his clothes and came into the house of the LORD and worshipped. Then he came to his own house; and when he asked, they set bread before him, and he ate.
(For the Pharisees and all the Jews, unless they wash their hands often, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.
Cleanliness » Figurative
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have communion with him in the midst of us, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son cleanses us from all sin.
and from Jesus, the Christ, who is the faithful witness and the first begotten of the dead and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us and washed us from our sins with his own blood
And I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be cleansed from all your filthiness, and from all your idols I will cleanse you.
Remove the sin in me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
Cleanliness » Regulation relating to, in camp
Thou shalt have a place also outside the camp where thou shalt go forth abroad; and thou shalt have a stake among thy weapons; and it shall be when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig with it and shalt turn back and cover thy excrement; for the LORD thy God walks in the midst of thy camp to deliver thee and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore, shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee and turn away from thee.
Topics on Cleanliness
Cleanliness, Metaphorical Use
Isaiah 4:4When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning.