2 Corinthians 7:1

Paul's Joy At The Corinthians' Repentance

¹ So since we have promises like these, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves of everything that can defile body or spirit, and by reverence for God make our consecration complete. ² Make room for me in your hearts. I have not wronged or harmed or got the better of anybody.

Fear of God

Flesh and Spirit

Let Us

Of the Flesh

O God

Sin

2 Corinthians 6:17-18

Therefore, "Come out from them, And separate from them, says the Lord, And touch nothing that is unclean. Then I will welcome you,

1 Peter 2:11

Dear friends, I beg you, as aliens and exiles here, not to indulge the physical cravings that are at war with the soul.

1 John 3:3

And everyone who possesses this hope in him tries to make himself as pure as he is.

Matthew 5:8

"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God!

Matthew 5:48

So you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is.

Matthew 12:33

"You must either make the tree sound and its fruit sound, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad; a tree is judged by its fruit.

Matthew 23:25-26

Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

Luke 11:39-40

But the Master said to him, "You Pharisees clean the outside of cups and dishes, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.

Acts 9:31

So the church all over Judea, Galilee, and Samaria was at peace and became established. It lived in reverence for the Lord and, stimulated by the holy Spirit, it grew steadily in numbers.

Romans 5:20-11

Then law slipped in, and multiplied the offense. But greatly as sin multiplied, God's mercy has far surpassed it,

1 Corinthians 6:20

you have been bought and paid for. Therefore, honor God with your bodies.

2 Corinthians 1:20

for to all the promises of God he supplies the "Yes" that confirms them. That is why we utter the "Amen" through him, when we give glory to God.

Ephesians 2:3

We all lived among them once, indulging our physical cravings and obeying the impulses of our lower nature and its thoughts, and by nature we were doomed to God's wrath like other men.

Ephesians 4:12-13

in order to fit his people for the work of service, for building the body of Christ,

Philippians 3:12-15

Not that I have secured it yet, or already reached perfection, but I am pressing on to see if I can capture it, because I have been captured by Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 3:13

so that your hearts may be strong and faultlessly pure in the sight of our God and Father, when our Lord Jesus appears with all his saints!

1 Thessalonians 4:7

God has not called us to an unclean life, but to a pure one.

1 Thessalonians 5:23

May God himself, the giver of peace, consecrate you through and through. Spirit, soul, and body, may you be kept sound, and be found irreproachable when our Lord Jesus Christ comes.

Titus 2:11-14

For God's mercy has appeared and brought salvation to all men,

Hebrews 4:1

We ought therefore to fear that when the promise of admission to his Rest is still open, some one of you may be found to have failed to reach it.

Hebrews 12:23

to the solemn gathering of all God's elder sons, enrolled as citizens in heaven, to a judge who is the God of all, to the spirits of upright men now at last enjoying the fulfilment of their hopes,

Hebrews 12:28

Let us, therefore, be thankful that the kingdom given to us cannot be shaken, and so please God by worshiping him with reverence and awe;

James 4:8

Approach God, and he will approach you. Wash your hands, you sinners! Make your hearts pure, you doubters!

1 Peter 1:22

Now that by obeying the truth you have purified your souls for sincere love of the brotherhood, you must love one another intensely and heartily,

1 Peter 5:10

And God, the giver of all mercy, who through your union with Christ has called you to his eternal glory, after you have suffered a little while will himself make you perfect, steadfast, and strong.

2 Peter 1:4-8

Thus he has given us his precious and splendid promises so that through them you may escape the corrupting influences that exist in the world through passion, and come to share in the divine nature.

1 John 1:7

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

1 John 1:9

If we acknowledge our sins, he is upright and can be depended on to forgive our sins and cleanse us from everything wrong.