56 Bible Verses about Purity, Moral And Spiritual

You are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and can not look on iniquity: why do you look upon them that deal treacherously, and hold your tongue when the wicked devours the man that is more righteous than he?

Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?

With the pure you will show yourself pure; and with the devious you will show yourself shrewd.

This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

And every man that has this hope in him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his clothing was white as the light.

For such a high priest was befitting for us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place? He that has clean hands, and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part you shall make me to know wisdom.

[A Psalm of Asaph.] Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

Therefore shall you keep my ordinance, that you commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that you defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.

I made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I think upon a maiden?

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

Purge out therefore the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, as you are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? God forbid. What? know you not that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? for two, says he, shall be one flesh. But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.read more.
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is outside the body; but he that commits fornication sins against his own body. What? know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have of God, and you are not your own? For you are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from fornication:

Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience are defiled.

To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

Let marriage be held in honor by all, and the bed undefiled: but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Pure religion and undefiled before God the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

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

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? no one.

What is man, that he should be clean? and he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

Your calf, O Samaria, has cast you off; my anger is kindled against them: how long will it be before they attain to innocence?

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

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

In your filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged you, and you were not purged, you shall not be purged from your filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon you.

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Then flew one of the seraphim unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:

John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.

For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for such things, be diligent that you may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.

Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

For then will I restore to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one accord.

In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.

How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of Abel.

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

Now you are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

Jesus said to him, He that is washed needs not except to wash his feet, but is clean completely: and you are clean, but not all.

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live sensibly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ;

That the land vomit you not out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nations that were before you.

And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he has spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust you out of the way which the LORD your God commanded you to walk in. So shall you put the evil away from the midst of you.

The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall put the evil away from among you.

Now therefore deliver us the men, the children of Belial, who are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not listen to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel:

But who may endure the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appears? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap: And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness. Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years.

But them that are outside God judges. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

I beheld till the thrones were set in place, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and its wheels as burning fire.

Come now, and let us reason together, says 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.

And his clothing became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can whiten them.

His countenance was like lightning, and his clothing white as snow: