2 Corinthians 7:1

Paul's Joy At The Corinthians' Repentance

¹ So, since we have such promises as these, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles our bodies and spirits, and in reverence to God carry on our consecration to completeness. ² Make room for me in your hearts, I have not wronged or harmed or taken advantage of a single one of you.

Fear of God

Flesh and Spirit

Let Us

Of the Flesh

O God

Sin

2 Corinthians 6:17-18

Therefore: "'Come out of company with them, and separate from them,' the Lord has said, 'And stop touching what is unclean; then I will welcome you,

1 Peter 2:11

Dearly beloved, I beg you as aliens and exiles to keep on abstaining from the evil desires of your lower nature, because they are always at war with the soul.

1 John 3:3

And everyone who has 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, my followers, ought to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is."

Matthew 12:33

"You must either make the tree healthy and its fruits healthy or make the tree sickly and its fruits sickly, for a tree is judged by its fruit.

Matthew 23:25-26

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

Luke 11:39-40

But the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees have the habit of cleaning the outside of your cups and dishes, but inside you yourselves are full of greed and wickedness.

Acts 9:31

So the church all over Judea, Galilee, and Samaria enjoyed peace, and as it continued to be built up spiritually and to live in reverence for the Lord, it continued to increase in numbers through the encouragement that the Holy Spirit gave.

Romans 5:20-11

Then law crept in to multiply the offense. Though sin has multiplied, yet God's favor has surpassed it and overflowed,

1 Corinthians 6:20

for you have been bought and actually paid for. So you must honor God with your bodies.

2 Corinthians 1:20

But with Him it is always "Yes," for, as many as the promises of God may be, through Him they are always "Yes." This is why our "Amen" through Him is for the glory of God when spoken by us.

Ephesians 2:3

once lived while gratifying the cravings of our lower nature, as we continued to carry out the impulses of our lower nature and its thoughts, and by nature we were exposed to God's wrath, as the rest of mankind.

Ephesians 4:12-13

for the immediate equipment of God's people for the work of service, for the ultimate building up of the body of Christ,

Philippians 3:12-15

It is not a fact that I have already secured it or already reached perfection, but I am pressing on to see if I can capture it, the ideal for which I was captured by Christ Jesus.

1 Thessalonians 3:13

so that He may strengthen your hearts to be faultless in purity in the sight of God, when our Lord Jesus comes back with all His consecrated ones.

1 Thessalonians 4:7

For God did not call us to a life of immorality, but to one of personal purity.

1 Thessalonians 5:23

May God Himself, who gave you peace, consecrate your whole being. May you be safely kept, spirit, soul, and body, so as to be blameless when our Lord Jesus Christ comes back.

Titus 2:11-14

For God's favor has appeared with its offer of salvation to all mankind,

Hebrews 4:1

So let us fear that when the promise for us to be admitted to His rest is still remaining valid some one of you may be found to have missed it.

Hebrews 12:23

to the festal gathering and assembly of God's firstborn sons enrolled as citizens in heaven, to a Judge who is the God of all, to the spirits of upright men who have attained perfection,

Hebrews 12:28

Let us, therefore, be thankful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and in this way continue to serve God acceptably in reverence and fear;

James 4:8

Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Get your hands clean, you sinners. Get your hearts purified, you double-minded.

1 Peter 1:22

Since you have purified your souls by obeying the truth, in sincere love for the brotherhood you must love one another heartily and fervently,

1 Peter 5:10

And God, the giver of every spiritual blessing, 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, firm, and strong,

2 Peter 1:4-8

It is through these that He has given us His precious and glorious promises, so that through them, after you have escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of evil desires, you may come to share in the divine nature.

1 John 1:7

But if we continue to live in the light, just as He is in the light, we have unbroken fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son continues to cleanse us from every sin.

1 John 1:9

If we confess our sins, He is to be depended on, since He is just, to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from every wrong.