2 Corinthians 7:1

Paul's Joy At The Corinthians' Repentance

¹ Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every filthiness of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in fear of God. ² Make room for us. We wronged no man, we corrupted no man, we exploited no man.

Fear of God

Flesh and Spirit

Let Us

Of the Flesh

O God

Sin

Proverbs 8:13

The fear of LORD is to hate evil. Pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the perverse mouth, do I hate.

2 Corinthians 6:17-18

Therefore, Come ye out from among them, and be ye separated, says Lord, And touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and sojourners, to abstain from the fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.

1 John 3:3

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

2 Chronicles 19:9

And he charged them, saying, Thus ye shall do in the fear of LORD, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.

Psalm 19:9

The fear of LORD is clean, enduring forever. The ordinances of LORD 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

With what shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed according to thy word.

Proverbs 16:6

By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of LORD men depart 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 who are pure in their own eyes, and [yet] are not washed from their filthiness.

Isaiah 1:16

Wash you, make you clean, put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.

Isaiah 55:7

Let the wicked man forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. And let him return to LORD, and he will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Jeremiah 13:27

I have seen thine abominations, even thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, on the hills, in the field. Woe to thee, O Jerusalem! Thou will not be made clean. How long shall it yet be?

Ezekiel 18:30-32

Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, each one according to his ways, says lord LORD. Return ye, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions, so iniquity shall not be your ruin.

Ezekiel 36:25-26

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

Matthew 5:8

Blessed are the pure in heart, because they will see God.

Matthew 5:48

Ye therefore shall be perfect, even as your Father in the heavens is perfect.

Matthew 12:33

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

Matthew 23:25-26

Woe to you, scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but inside they are full of plunder and unrighteousness.

Luke 11:39-40

And the Lord said to him, Now ye Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your interior is full of plundering and wickedness.

Acts 9:31

Indeed therefore the congregations throughout the whole of Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace, being edified. And, going in the fear of the Lord and in the encouragement of the Holy Spirit, they were multiplied.

Romans 5:20-11

And the law entered so that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace was more abundant,

1 Corinthians 6:20

for ye were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and your spirit, which is of God.

2 Corinthians 1:20

For as many as be promises of God, in him is the Yes, and in him the Truly, for glory to God through us.

Ephesians 2:3

Among whom we also all once behaved in the lusts of our flesh, doing the intentions of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath as also the others.

Ephesians 4:12-13

for the perfecting of the sanctified, for the work of ministry, for edification of the body of the Christ.

Philippians 3:12-15

Not that I have already obtained or have already been fully perfected, but I press forward, if also I might seize upon that for which also I was seized by Christ Jesus.

1 Thessalonians 3:13

in order to establish your hearts unblameable in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his sanctified.

1 Thessalonians 4:7

For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in sanctification.

1 Thessalonians 5:23

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

Titus 2:11-14

For the saving grace of God has appeared to all men,

Hebrews 4:1

Let us be afraid therefore, lest, a promise being left behind to enter into his rest, any of you should seem to have come short.

Hebrews 12:23

to a festal gathering and assembly of firstborn sons who were enrolled in the heavens, and to God, a Judge of all, and to spirits of righteous men who were made fully perfect,

Hebrews 12:28

Therefore, receiving an immovable kingdom, we may have grace, through which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and awe.

James 4:8

Approach God and he will approach you. Cleanse the hands, ye sinners, and purify the hearts, ye double-minded.

1 Peter 1:22

Men who have purified your souls in obedience of the truth through the Spirit for non-hypocritical brotherly love. Ye should love each other fervently from a pure heart,

1 Peter 5:10

And may the God of all grace who called you to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus (after suffering a little while) himself thoroughly prepare you. He will establish, strengthen, and provide a foundation.

2 Peter 1:4-8

Because of which, the precious and greatest promises have been given to us, so that through these ye might become companions of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption in the world in lust.

1 John 1:7

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

1 John 1:9

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous so that he will forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from every unrighteousness.