15 Bible Verses about Cleanliness

Most Relevant Verses

Deuteronomy 23:12-14

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.

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Ablution » Cleanliness » Examples of

Genesis 43:24

The servant took them into Joseph's house. He gave them water to wash their feet. He also tended their donkeys.

Exodus 19:14

Moses went down from the mountain to the people. He consecrated the people, and they washed their garments.

2 Samuel 12:20

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.

Mark 7:3

(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat until they wash their hands. They practice the tradition of the elders.)

Cleanliness » Encouraged

Ruth 3:3

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.

Genesis 35:2

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.

Leviticus 13:6

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.

More verses: Numbers 8:7

Cleanliness » Examples of

Genesis 43:24

The servant took them into Joseph's house. He gave them water to wash their feet. He also tended their donkeys.

Exodus 19:14

Moses went down from the mountain to the people. He consecrated the people, and they washed their garments.

2 Samuel 12:20

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.

Mark 7:3

(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat until they wash their hands. They practice the tradition of the elders.)

Cleanliness » Figurative

Cleanliness » Regulation relating to, in camp

Deuteronomy 23:12-14

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 4:4

Jehovah 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.

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