Genesis 35:2
So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, "Get rid of the foreign gods you have among you. Purify yourselves and change your clothes.
Genesis 18:19
I have chosen him so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just. Then the Lord will give to Abraham what he promised him."
Genesis 31:19
While Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole the household idols that belonged to her father.
Exodus 19:10
The Lord said to Moses, "Go to the people and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and make them wash their clothes
Joshua 24:15
If you have no desire to worship the Lord, choose today whom you will worship, whether it be the gods whom your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. But I and my family will worship the Lord!"
Exodus 19:14
Then Moses went down from the mountain to the people and sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes.
Genesis 31:34
(Now Rachel had taken the idols and put them inside her camel's saddle and sat on them.) Laban searched the whole tent, but did not find them.
Joshua 24:23
Joshua said, "Now put aside the foreign gods that are among you and submit to the Lord God of Israel."
1 Samuel 7:3
Samuel said to all the people of Israel, "If you are really turning to the Lord with all your hearts, remove from among you the foreign gods and the images of Ashtoreth. Give your hearts to the Lord and serve only him. Then he will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines."
Genesis 34:2
When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, who ruled that area, saw her, he grabbed her, forced himself on her, and sexually assaulted her.
Genesis 34:24-25
All the men who assembled at the city gate agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem. Every male who assembled at the city gate was circumcised.
Genesis 35:22
While Israel was living in that land, Reuben had sexual relations with Bilhah, his father's concubine, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:
Exodus 20:3-4
"You shall have no other gods before me.
Exodus 23:13
"Pay attention to do everything I have told you, and do not even mention the names of other gods -- do not let them be heard on your lips.
Leviticus 15:5
Anyone who touches his bed must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
Leviticus 17:16
But if he does not wash his clothes and does not bathe his body, he will bear his punishment for iniquity.'"
Numbers 31:24
You must wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you will be ceremonially clean, and afterward you may enter the camp.'"
Deuteronomy 5:7
You must not have any other gods besides me.
Deuteronomy 6:14
You must not go after other gods, those of the surrounding peoples,
Deuteronomy 7:25
You must burn the images of their gods, but do not covet the silver and gold that covers them so much that you take it for yourself and thus become ensnared by it; for it is abhorrent to the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 11:28
and the curse if you pay no attention to his commandments and turn from the way I am setting before you today to pursue other gods you have not known.
Deuteronomy 32:16
They made him jealous with other gods, they enraged him with abhorrent idols.
Joshua 23:7
or associate with these nations that remain near you. You must not invoke or make solemn declarations by the names of their gods! You must not worship or bow down to them!
Joshua 24:2
Joshua told all the people, "Here is what the Lord God of Israel says: 'In the distant past your ancestors lived beyond the Euphrates River, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor. They worshiped other gods,
Joshua 24:20
If you abandon the Lord and worship foreign gods, he will turn against you; he will bring disaster on you and destroy you, though he once treated you well."
Judges 10:16
They threw away the foreign gods they owned and worshiped the Lord. Finally the Lord grew tired of seeing Israel suffer so much.
Ruth 1:15
So Naomi said, "Look, your sister-in-law is returning to her people and to her god. Follow your sister-in-law back home!"
2 Samuel 7:23
Who is like your people, Israel, a unique nation on the earth? Their God went to claim a nation for himself and to make a name for himself! You did great and awesome acts for your land, before your people whom you delivered for yourself from the Egyptian empire and its gods.
2 Kings 5:10
Elisha sent out a messenger who told him, "Go and wash seven times in the Jordan; your skin will be restored and you will be healed."
2 Kings 5:12-13
The rivers of Damascus, the Abana and Pharpar, are better than any of the waters of Israel! Could I not wash in them and be healed?" So he turned around and went away angry.
2 Kings 17:29
But each of these nations made its own gods and put them in the shrines on the high places that the people of Samaria had made. Each nation did this in the cities where they lived.
1 Chronicles 16:26
For all the gods of the nations are worthless, but the Lord made the heavens.
Job 1:5
When the days of their feasting were finished, Job would send for them and sanctify them; he would get up early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job thought, "Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts." This was Job's customary practice.
Psalm 51:2
Wash away my wrongdoing! Cleanse me of my sin!
Psalm 51:7
Sprinkle me with water and I will be pure; wash me and I will be whiter than snow.
Psalm 101:2-7
I will walk in the way of integrity. When will you come to me? I will conduct my business with integrity in the midst of my palace.
Ecclesiastes 5:1
Be careful what you do when you go to the temple of God; draw near to listen rather than to offer a sacrifice like fools, for they do not realize that they are doing wrong.
Isaiah 1:16
Wash! Cleanse yourselves! Remove your sinful deeds from my sight. Stop sinning!
Isaiah 52:11
Leave! Leave! Get out of there! Don't touch anything unclean! Get out of it! Stay pure, you who carry the Lord's holy items!
Jeremiah 5:7
The Lord asked, "How can I leave you unpunished, Jerusalem? Your people have rejected me and have worshiped gods that are not gods at all. Even though I supplied all their needs, they were like an unfaithful wife to me. They went flocking to the houses of prostitutes.
Jeremiah 13:27
People of Jerusalem, I have seen your adulterous worship, your shameless prostitution to, and your lustful pursuit of, other gods. I have seen your disgusting acts of worship on the hills throughout the countryside. You are doomed to destruction! How long will you continue to be unclean?'"
Jeremiah 16:20
Can people make their own gods? No, what they make are not gods at all."
Ezekiel 18:31
Throw away all your sins you have committed and fashion yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why should you die, O house of Israel?
Ezekiel 20:7
I said to them, "Each of you must get rid of the detestable idols you keep before you, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the Lord your God."
Ezekiel 36:25
I will sprinkle you with pure water and you will be clean from all your impurities. I will purify you from all your idols.
Daniel 5:4
As they drank wine, they praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.
John 13:10-11
Jesus replied, "The one who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean. And you disciples are clean, but not every one of you."
Acts 19:26
And you see and hear that this Paul has persuaded and turned away a large crowd, not only in Ephesus but in practically all of the province of Asia, by saying that gods made by hands are not gods at all.
1 Corinthians 10:7
So do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play."
2 Corinthians 6:15-17
And what agreement does Christ have with Beliar? Or what does a believer share in common with an unbeliever?
2 Corinthians 7:1
Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that could defile the body and the spirit, and thus accomplish holiness out of reverence for God.
Galatians 4:8
Formerly when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods at all.
Hebrews 10:22
let us draw near with a sincere heart in the assurance that faith brings, because we have had our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water.
James 4:8
Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and make your hearts pure, you double-minded.
1 Peter 2:1-2
So get rid of all evil and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.
Jude 1:23
save others by snatching them out of the fire; have mercy on others, coupled with a fear of God, hating even the clothes stained by the flesh.