15 Bible Verses about Cleanliness
Most Relevant Verses
Wash yourselves! Become clean! Get your evil deeds out of my sight. Stop doing evil.
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast (dependable) spirit within me.
Purify me from sin with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness with deep reverence for God.
Never slash your body to mourn the dead, and never get a tattoo. I am Jehovah.
Set up a toilet area outside the camp and go out there. Keep a spade among your tools. When you sit down outside use the spade to dig and cover up your excrement. Jehovah your God walks in the middle of your camp. He is there to deliver you and to defeat your enemies before you. Therefore your camp must be holy. He must not see anything indecent among you or He will turn away from you.
I will sprinkle clean water on you and make you clean instead of unclean. Then I will cleanse you from all your idols.
You are blind. Clean the inside of the cup and platter first. Then clean the outside.
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.
Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.
From Thematic Bible
Ablution » Cleanliness » Examples of
Please. Let a little water be brought. Wash your feet and rest under the tree.
The servant took them into Joseph's house. He gave them water to wash their feet. He also tended their donkeys.
Moses went down from the mountain to the people. He consecrated the people, and they washed their garments.
David got up from the floor. He took a bath, combed his hair, and changed his clothes. Then he went and worshiped in the Temple of Jehovah. After that he returned to the palace and ate.
(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat until they wash their hands. They practice the tradition of the elders.)
Cleanliness » Encouraged
let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
Wash and perfume yourself and put on your best clothes. Go down to the floor. Make yourself known to the man after he is done eating and drinking.
Jacob said to his family and those who were with him: Get rid of the foreign gods that you have. Wash yourselves until you are ritually clean. Change your clothes.
The priest will examine you again on the seventh day. If the sore has faded and has not spread, he will pronounce you ritually clean. It is only a sore. You will wash your clothes and be ritually clean.
Cleanliness » Examples of
Please. Let a little water be brought. Wash your feet and rest under the tree.
The servant took them into Joseph's house. He gave them water to wash their feet. He also tended their donkeys.
Moses went down from the mountain to the people. He consecrated the people, and they washed their garments.
David got up from the floor. He took a bath, combed his hair, and changed his clothes. Then he went and worshiped in the Temple of Jehovah. After that he returned to the palace and ate.
(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat until they wash their hands. They practice the tradition of the elders.)
Cleanliness » Figurative
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.
And from Jesus Christ, who is the Faithful Witness, and the firstborn from the dead, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and released us from our sins by his blood.
I will sprinkle clean water on you and make you clean instead of unclean. Then I will cleanse you from all your idols.
Purify me from sin with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast (dependable) spirit within me.
Cleanliness » Regulation relating to, in camp
Set up a toilet area outside the camp and go out there. Keep a spade among your tools. When you sit down outside use the spade to dig and cover up your excrement. Jehovah your God walks in the middle of your camp. He is there to deliver you and to defeat your enemies before you. Therefore your camp must be holy. He must not see anything indecent among you or He will turn away from you.
Topics on Cleanliness
Cleanliness, Metaphorical Use
Isaiah 4:4Jehovah will wash away the filth of the daughters (women) of Zion and purge the bloodshed of Jerusalem from her midst, by the spirit of judgment and the spirit of burning.