2 Corinthians 7:1

Paul's Joy At The Corinthians' Repentance

¹ Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. ² Open your hearts to us. We wronged no person. We wronged and corrupted no one. We took advantage of no person.

Fear of God

Flesh and Spirit

Let Us

Of the Flesh

O God

Sin

Proverbs 8:13

Respect for Jehovah means to hate evil. I hate: pride, and arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

2 Corinthians 6:17-18

Therefore come out from among them and be separate (set off) (severed from them) (excluded from them), said Jehovah. Do not touch the unclean thing and I will receive you. (Isaiah 52:11) (Jeremiah 51:45)

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I request that you as aliens and strangers abstain from fleshly lust (desires), which causes conflict in you.

1 John 3:3

Everyone who has this hope in him is purified. He is pure.

2 Chronicles 19:9

He told them: Faithfully serve Jehovah!

Psalm 19:9

The reverence of Jehovah is pure. It endures forever. The decisions of Jehovah are true. They are completely fair.

Psalm 51:10

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast (dependable) spirit within me.

Psalm 119:9

How can a young man keep his way pure? By keeping it according to your word.

Proverbs 16:6

Sin is atoned by loving kindness and truth. Respect for Jehovah keeps one 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 pure in their own eyes, and yet not washed from their filthiness.

Isaiah 1:16

Wash yourselves! Become clean! Get your evil deeds out of my sight. Stop doing evil.

Isaiah 55:7

Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man his thoughts. Let him turn to Jehovah, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will freely pardon.

Jeremiah 4:14

O Jerusalem, wash the evil from your heart so that you may be saved. How long will your wicked thoughts lodge within you?

Jeremiah 13:27

I have seen you commit adultery and scream with delight. I have seen you act like a brazen prostitute on the hills and in the fields. How hideous it will be for you, Jerusalem! Will you ever be clean?

Ezekiel 18:30-32

That is why I will judge each of you by what you have done, people of Israel, declares the Lord Jehovah. Change the way you think and act. (Repent!) Turn away from all the rebellious things that you have done so that you will not fall into sin.

Ezekiel 36:25-26

I will sprinkle clean water on you and make you clean instead of unclean. Then I will cleanse you from all your idols.

Matthew 5:8

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

Matthew 5:48

Be perfect (mature), even as your Father in heaven is perfect (mature). (Leviticus 19:2)

Matthew 12:33

Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt. The fruit a tree produces provides its reputation.

Matthew 23:25-26

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, yet the inside is full of extortion and excess.

Luke 11:39-40

The Lord said: You Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter. Yet your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.

Acts 9:31

The congregations throughout all Judea, Galilee and Samaria, were built up. They walked in deep respect for Jehovah and were comforted by the Holy Spirit and continued to grow.

Romans 5:20-11

The law came that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased God's loving kindness increased even more.

1 Corinthians 6:20

You are bought with a price! Therefore glorify God in your body.

2 Corinthians 1:20

All the promises of God in him are yes. Also in his is the Amen, to the glory of God through us.

Ephesians 2:3

We all once lived in the lust of our flesh, indulging the desires (lusts) of the flesh and of the mind. We were by nature children of anger and violent passion, like everyone else.

Ephesians 4:12-13

This is for the perfecting (equipping) (preparing) of the holy ones, for the work of ministering, for the building up of the body of Christ:

Philippians 3:12-15

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect. But I press on, that I may obtain that for which Christ Jesus also obtained.

1 Thessalonians 3:13

May he resolutely strengthen your hearts without blame in holiness before God, our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his holy ones.

1 Thessalonians 4:7

For God has not called us to uncleanness, but to holiness.

1 Thessalonians 5:23

May the very God of peace completely sanctify you (make you holy). I pray to God that your entire spiritual being, your mind and body, is preserved blameless until the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Titus 2:11-14

For the grace (divine influence) of God has been revealed, bringing salvation to all men,

Hebrews 4:1

While the promise of entering his rest remains, let us fear that one of you might come up short and not enter.

Hebrews 12:23

to the general assembly and congregation of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just (righteous) (holy) men made perfect (mature) (having all needed qualities).

Hebrews 12:28

Let us be thankful, because we will receive a kingdom that cannot be shaken. Let us be grateful and worship (serve) (intensely adore) God in a way that will please him, with reverence and awe.

James 4:8

Draw close to God, and he will draw close to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded (uncertain) (doubter) (skeptic).

1 Peter 1:22

You have purified your hearts by obeying the truth. You have genuine affection for the brothers and sisters. So always love one another intensely (extremely) (deeply) from the heart.

1 Peter 5:10

After you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will perfect, establish, and strengthen you.

2 Peter 1:4-8

He offered us his precious and exceedingly great promises. Through these you may become partakers of the divine nature. You will escape from the corruption that is in the lust-filled world.

1 John 1:7

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

1 John 1:9

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