30 Bible Verses about Defilement

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Matthew 15:11

Not that coming into the mouth pollutes the man; but that going forth out of the mouth, this pollutes the man.

Matthew 15:18

But the things going forth out of the mouth come from the heart, and these pollute the man.

Mark 7:15

There is nothing from without a man, entering into him, which can defile him: but things coming out from him, these are the things polluting the man.

Matthew 15:20

These are the things polluting a man: but to eat with unwashed hands pollutes not a man.

Leviticus 18:24

Ye shall not be defiled in any of these, for in all these the nations were defiled which I send out from your face.

Revelation 14:4

There are they who were not contaminated by women; for they are virgins. These are they following the Lamb wherever he should lead. These were purchased from men, first fruits to God and the Lamb.

Daniel 1:8

And Daniel will set up upon his heart that he will not be defiled with the dainties of the king, and with the wine of his drinking: and he will seek from the chief of the eunuchs that he shall not defile himself.

Ezekiel 5:11

For this, I live, says the Lord Jehovah, if not because thou didst defile my holy place with all thine abominable things, and with all thine abominations, and I will also diminish; and mine eye shall not spare, and also I will not pity.

Mark 7:18

And he says, So are ye also without understanding? Do ye not perceive, that anything from without entering into a man, cannot pollute him

Leviticus 18:25

And the land shall be defiled: and I will strike iniquity upon it, and the land shall vomit forth its inhabitants.

Leviticus 18:28

And the land shall not vomit you forth in your defiling it, as it vomited forth the nations which were before you.

Mark 7:23

All these evils go out from within, and pollute a man.

Isaiah 24:5

And the earth was polluted under its inhabitants, for they passed by the instructions, they changed the law, they broke the eternal covenant

1 Timothy 1:10

For fornicators, unchaste, man-stealers, liars, the perjured, and if there be any other thing opposed to sound doctrine;

2 Peter 2:20

For if having escaped the pollutions of the world by the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and again entangling with these, they be conquered, the last things have been to them worse than the first.

Numbers 35:34

And thou shalt not defile the land which ye shall dwell upon it, which I dwell in the midst of it: for I Jehovah dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel

Micah 2:10

Arise ye, and go, for this is not the rest: because it was defiled it will destroy, and with a sore destruction.

Deuteronomy 24:4

Her first husband who sent her away shall not be able to turn back to take her to be to him for a wife after that she was defiled; for it is an abomination before Jehovah: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin which Jehovah thy God gave to thee an inheritance.

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Defilement » Of sin

Ezekiel 22:4

In thy blood which thou didst pour out thou went guilty; and by thy blocks which thou didst make thou wert defiled; and thou wilt cause thy days to draw near, and thou wilt come even to thy years: for this, I gave thee a reproach to the nations, and a derision to all the lands.

Isaiah 59:3

For your hands were polluted with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips spake falsehood, your tongue will mutter evil.

Isaiah 24:5

And the earth was polluted under its inhabitants, for they passed by the instructions, they changed the law, they broke the eternal covenant

Ezekiel 28:18

From the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffic, thou didst profane my holy places; and I will bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall consume thee, and I will give thee for ashes upon the earth before the eyes of all seeing thee.

Ezekiel 43:8

In their giving their threshold with my thresholds, and their door-post by my door-posts, and the wall between me and between them, and they defiled my holy name with their abominations which they did: and consuming them in my anger.

Defilement » Who defiles the land

Isaiah 24:5

And the earth was polluted under its inhabitants, for they passed by the instructions, they changed the law, they broke the eternal covenant

Genesis 6:11-13

And the earth shall be corrupted to the face of God; and the earth shall be filled with violence. And God shall see the earth, and lo, it was corrupted, for all flesh corrupted its way upon the earth. And God will say to Noah, The end of all flesh came in to my face, for the earth was filled with violence from the face of them, and behold me destroying them from the earth.

Numbers 35:30-33

Every one striking a soul by the mouth of witnesses, he shall slay the slayer: and one witness shall not testify against a soul to die. Ye shall not take expiation for the soul of a slayer, he who was guilty to die, for dying, he shall die. And ye shall not take expiation for him fleeing to the city of his refuge, for turning back to dwell in the land till the death of the priest read more.
And ye shall not pollute the land which ye are in it: for blood it will pollute the land: and for the land it will not be expiated for the blood which was poured out upon it but by the blood of him shedding.

Psalm 106:37-39

And they will sacrifice their sons and their daughters to lords. And they will pour out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and their daughters which they sacrificed to the images of Canaan: and the land will be polluted with bloods. And they will be defiled with their works: and they will commit fornication in their doings.

Jeremiah 16:16-21

Behold me sending for many fishers, says Jehovah, and they fished them; and after this I will send for many hunters, and they hunted them from every mountain, and from every hill, and from the clefts of the rocks. For mine eyes are upon all their ways, and they were not hid from my face, and their iniquity was not concealed from before mine eyes. And I requited first double their iniquity and their sin, for their defiling my land, with the carcasses of their abominable things, and their abominations they filled up mine inheritance. read more.
O Jehovah, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in days of straits, to thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and they shall say, Surely our fathers inherited falsehood, vanity, and no receiving profit in them. Shall man make to himself gods, and they not gods? For this, behold me causing them to know in this once, I will cause them to know my hand and my strength; and they shall know that my name is Jehovah.

More verses: Ezekiel 36:16-18

Defilement » What defiles a man

James 3:6

(And the tongue a fire, a world of iniquity: so the tongue is placed in our members, defiling the whole body, and burning the wheel of creation; and burned by hell.

Matthew 15:10-11

And having called the crowd, he said to them, Hear ye, and understand. Not that coming into the mouth pollutes the man; but that going forth out of the mouth, this pollutes the man.

Mark 7:14-23

And having called all the crowd, he said to them, Hear me, all ye, and do ye understand: There is nothing from without a man, entering into him, which can defile him: but things coming out from him, these are the things polluting the man. If any have ears to hear, let him hear. read more.
And when he came into the house from the crowd, his disciples asked him of the parable. And he says, So are ye also without understanding? Do ye not perceive, that anything from without entering into a man, cannot pollute him For it goes not into the heart, but into the belly, and goes forth into the privy, purging all food And he said, That going out of a man, that pollutes a man. For within, out of the heart of men, go forth evil reflections, adulteries, fornications, murders, Thefts, overreaching, deceit, licentiousness, an evil eye, defamation, pride, foolishness: All these evils go out from within, and pollute a man.

Defilement » Caused by » Touching carcass of an unclean thing

Leviticus 5:2-13

Or when a soul shall touch upon any unclean thing, if upon a carcase of an unclean beast, or upon the carcase of unclean cattle, or upon the carcase of an unclean creeping thing, and it was hidden from him: and he is unclean and guilty. Or when he shall touch upon the uncleanness of man, for all uncleanness which he shall be unclean in it, and it was hidden from him; and he shall know, and be guilty. Or when a soul shall swear to talk idly with his lips for evil, or for good, for all which the man shall talk idly with an oath, and it was hid from him; and he shall know, and be guilty for one from these. read more.
And it was when he shall be guilty for one from these, and he shall confess that he sinned upon it And he brought his trespass to Jehovah for his sin which he sinned, a female from the sheep, a lamb or she goat of the goats, for the sin; and the priest expiated for him from his sin, And if his hand shall not reach the sufficiency of a sheep, and he brought his trespass which he sinned, two turtledoves, or two sons of a dove, to Jehovah; one for the sin, and one for the burnt-offering. And he brought them to the priest, and he brought near that for the sin first, and broke off its head from the front of its neck; and he shall not divide. And he sprinkled from the blood of the sin upon the wall of the altar; and that remaining of the blood he shall press out at the foundation of the altar: it is sin. And the second he shall make a burnt-offering according to the judgment: and the priest expiated for him from his sin which he sinned, and it was forgiven to him. And if his hand shall not reach to the two turtle-doves, or to the two sons of a dove; and he brought his offering who sinned, the tenth of the ephah of fine flour for the sin; he shall not put oil upon it, and he shall not give frankincense upon it; for it is sin. And he brought it to the priest, and the priest pressed from it his hand full, its memorial, and burnt upon the altar for sacrifices to Jehovah: it is sin. And the priest shall expiate for him for his sin which he sinned, from one from these; and it was forgiven to him: and it was to the priest for a gift.

Leviticus 11:8

From their flesh ye shall not eat, and upon their carcass ye shall not touch; they are unclean to you.

Leviticus 11:24-28

And for these ye shall be unclean: all touching upon their carcass shall be unclean till evening. And every one lifting up from their carcass shall cleanse his garment; and be unclean till evening. For all cattle of which it is cleaving the cloven foot and not splitting the cleft, and not bringing up rumination, they are unclean to you; every one touching upon them shall be unclean. read more.
And every one going upon his hands among all beasts going upon four, they are unclean to you: every one touching upon their carcass shall be unclean till evening. And be lifting up their carcass shall cleanse his garments, and be unclean till evening: they are unclean to you.

Leviticus 11:31-38

These are unclean to you, among all the creeping: every one touching upon them in their dying, shall be unclean till even. And all which shall fall from them upon it in their dying, shall be unclean; from all vessels of wood, or garment, or skin, or sack, every vessel which work shall be done in them, into water shall it go, and be unclean till the evening: and it shall be clean. And every vessel of earthen upon which it shall fall from them, into its midst, all which is in its midst shall be unclean, and ye shall break it read more.
From all food which shall be eaten which water shall come upon it, shall be unclean: and all drink which shall be drank from every vessel shall be unclean. And every thing which their carcass shall fall upon it shall be unclean: oven and cooking-furnace shall be broken down: they are unclean, and they shall be unclean to you. But a fountain and pit, a gathering of waters, shall be clean: and he touching upon their carcass shall be unclean. And when from their carcass shall fall upon any seed of sowing which shall be sown, it is clean. And when water shall be given upon the seed and from their carcass fall upon it it is unclean to you.

Leviticus 14:46-57

And he coming in to the house all the days it is shut up, shall be unclean till the evening. And he lying in the house shall wash his garments: and he eating in the house shall wash his garments. And if the priest coming in, shall come in and see, and behold, the stroke spread not in the house after spreading over the house: and the priest cleansed the house, for the stroke was healed. read more.
And he took to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and double scarlet, and hyssop. And he slaughtered the one bird into a vessel of earthen, over living water. And he took the cedar wood, and the hyssop and the double scarlet, and the living bird, and dipped them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the living water, and sprinkled into the house seven times. And he cleansed the house with the blood of the bird in living water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the double scarlet And he sent away the living bird without the city to the face of the field, and he expiated for the house: and it was clean. This the law for every stroke of leprosy and for scall, And for the leprosy of a garment, and for a house, And for a rising, and for a scab, and for a brightness; And to teach in the day of being unclean, and in the day of cleansing: this the law of leprosy.

Defilement » Ceremonial, abolished under the gospel

Acts 10:15

And a voice again of a second time to him, What things God cleansed, do not thou make common.

Colossians 2:20-22

If therefore ye died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as living in the world, do ye dogmatize, (Touch not; neither taste; neither shouldest thou handle; Which are all for corruption in the using;) according to the commands and doctrines of men?

Defilement » Ceremonial

John 18:28

Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas to the pretorium: and it was early morning; and they came not into the pretorium, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the pascha.

Leviticus 11:43

Ye shall not make your souls abominable by any creeping thing creeping, and ye shall not be unclean by them, and be defiled by them.

Leviticus 15:2

Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, When a man, a man, there shall be a flowing from his flesh, his flowing unclean.

Defilement » Ceremonial caused by » Touching a dead body or a bone

Numbers 9:6

And there shall be men who were unclean by the soul of man, and they will not be able to do the passover in that day: and they came near before Moses and before Aaron, in that day:

Numbers 19:16

And every one who shall touch upon the face of the field, upon the wounded of the sword, or upon the dead, or upon the bone of man, or upon a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

Defilement » Moral, caused by » Making and serving idols

Ezekiel 20:17

And mine eye will spare for them from destroying them, and I made not a completion with them in the desert

Ezekiel 22:3

And say, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: The city poured out blood in the midst of her, for her time to come; and she made blocks for herself to be defiled.

Ezekiel 23:7

And she will give her whoredoms upon them from the choice of the sons of Assur all of them, and with all whom she desired; being defiled with all their blocks.

Defilement » Ceremonial caused by » Eating unclean things

Leviticus 11:8

From their flesh ye shall not eat, and upon their carcass ye shall not touch; they are unclean to you.

Acts 10:11

And he sees heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending upon him, as a great linen napkin fastened at the four beginnings, and laid down upon the earth:

Defilement » of priests

Leviticus 16:26

And he sending away the goat set apart, shall wash his garments and wash his flesh in water, and after this he shall go in to the camp.

Leviticus 16:28

And he burning them shall wash his clothes and wash his flesh in water, and after this he shall come in to the camp.

Numbers 19:7-10

And the priest washed his garments, and bathed his flesh in water, and afterward he shall go into the camp; and the priest was unclean till evening. And he burning her shall wash his garments in water, and bathed his flesh in water, and was unclean till the evening. And a clean man gathered up the ashes of the heifer, and put without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be to the assembly of the sons of Israel for a preservation for a water of uncleanness: it is sin. read more.
And he gathering the ashes of the heifer washed his garments, and was unclean till the evening: and it shall be to the sons of Israel, and to the stranger sojourning in the midst of them, for a law forever.

Ezekiel 44:25-26

And to a dead man they shall not come to be defiled: but for father and for mother, and for son and for daughter, for brother, for sister who was not to a husband, they shall be defiled. And after his cleansing they shall number to him seven days.

Defilement » priests » Specially required to avoid

Leviticus 21:1-6

And Jehovah will say to Moses, Say to the priests the sons of Aaron, and say to them, for the soul he shall not be defiled among his peoples. But if for his remainder coming near to him, for his mother and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother, And for his sister, a virgin, coming near to him, who was not for a husband for her, he shall be defiled. read more.
A chief among his people shall not be defiled, to profane himself. With baldness, they shall not make baldness upon their head, and they shall not shave the extremity of their beard: and in their flesh they shall not cut incisions. They shall be holy to their God, and profane not the name of their God: for the sacrifices of Jehovah, and the bread of their God they bring: and they were holy.

Leviticus 21:11-12

And to an dead soul he shall not come, for his father, and for his mother, he shall not be defiled. And from the holy place he shall not go forth, and he shall not profane the holy place of his God; for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is upon him I Jehovah.

Defilement » Not defiling

Leviticus 18:24-30

Ye shall not be defiled in any of these, for in all these the nations were defiled which I send out from your face. And the land shall be defiled: and I will strike iniquity upon it, and the land shall vomit forth its inhabitants. And ye watched these my laws, and my judgments, and ye shall not do from all of these abominations, the native and the stranger sojourning in your midst: read more.
For all these abominations did the men of the land which were before you, and the land shall be defiled. And the land shall not vomit you forth in your defiling it, as it vomited forth the nations which were before you. For every one which shall do from all of these abominations, and the souls doing were cut off from the midst of their people And they watched my watches so as not to do from the laws of abomination which were done before you, and ye shall not be defiled in them: I am Jehovah your God.

Numbers 35:33-34

And ye shall not pollute the land which ye are in it: for blood it will pollute the land: and for the land it will not be expiated for the blood which was poured out upon it but by the blood of him shedding. And thou shalt not defile the land which ye shall dwell upon it, which I dwell in the midst of it: for I Jehovah dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel

Defilement » Things liable to ceremonial » The land

Deuteronomy 21:23

His carcass shall not pass the night upon the tree; for burying, ye shall bury him in that day, for he being hung is the curse of God; and thou shalt not defile thy land which Jehovah thy God gave to thee an inheritance.

Leviticus 18:25

And the land shall be defiled: and I will strike iniquity upon it, and the land shall vomit forth its inhabitants.

Defilement » Ceremonial caused by » Touching a dead beast

Leviticus 5:2

Or when a soul shall touch upon any unclean thing, if upon a carcase of an unclean beast, or upon the carcase of unclean cattle, or upon the carcase of an unclean creeping thing, and it was hidden from him: and he is unclean and guilty.

Leviticus 11:24-28

And for these ye shall be unclean: all touching upon their carcass shall be unclean till evening. And every one lifting up from their carcass shall cleanse his garment; and be unclean till evening. For all cattle of which it is cleaving the cloven foot and not splitting the cleft, and not bringing up rumination, they are unclean to you; every one touching upon them shall be unclean. read more.
And every one going upon his hands among all beasts going upon four, they are unclean to you: every one touching upon their carcass shall be unclean till evening. And be lifting up their carcass shall cleanse his garments, and be unclean till evening: they are unclean to you.

Defilement » priests » Not to eat holy things while under

Leviticus 22:2

Speak to Aaron and to his sons, and they shall separate themselves from the holies of the sons of Israel, and they shall not profane my holy name which they consecrate to me: I Jehovah.

Leviticus 22:4-6

A man, a man from the seed of Aaron, and he leprous or flowing; he shall not eat of the holies till he shall be clean. And he touching upon any unclean soul, or a man which shall go forth from him the effusion of seed; Or a man who shall touch upon any creeping thing which shall be unclean to him, or upon a man who shall be unclean to him for all his uncleanness; The soul which shall touch upon it, and it shall be unclean till the evening, and he shall not eat from the holies, except he washed his flesh in water.

Defilement » Ceremonial caused by » Having a leprosy

Leviticus 13:3

And the priest saw the stroke in the skin of the flesh: and the hair in the stroke turned white, and the sight of the stroke deep from the skin of his flesh, it is the stroke of leprosy: and the priest saw him and defiled him.

Leviticus 13:11

It is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the priest shall defile him; he shall not shut him up for he is unclean.

Defilement » priests » To decide in all cases of

Leviticus 13:3

And the priest saw the stroke in the skin of the flesh: and the hair in the stroke turned white, and the sight of the stroke deep from the skin of his flesh, it is the stroke of leprosy: and the priest saw him and defiled him.

Leviticus 10:10

And to separate between the holy and between the unholy, and between the unclean and between the clean:

Defilement » Things liable to ceremonial » The sanctuary

Leviticus 20:3

And I will give my face against that man and cut him off from the midst of his people; for he gave from his seed to Molech, in order to defile my holy place and to profane my holy name.

Zephaniah 3:4

Her prophets vain-glorious men of treacheries: her priests defiled the holy place, they violated the law.

Defilement » Illustrative » Of sin

Matthew 15:11

Not that coming into the mouth pollutes the man; but that going forth out of the mouth, this pollutes the man.

Matthew 15:18

But the things going forth out of the mouth come from the heart, and these pollute the man.

Defilement » Neglecting purification from, punished by cutting off

Numbers 19:20

And a man who shall be unclean and shall not be purified, and that soul was cut off from the midst of the gathering, for he defiled the holy place of Jehovah: the water of uncleanness was not sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.

Numbers 19:13

All touching upon the dead, upon the soul of man which shall die, and shall not be purified, defiled the dwelling of Jehovah; and that soul was cut off from Israel: for the water of uncleanness was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness yet upon him.

Defilement » Ceremonial caused by » Having an issue, &c

Numbers 5:2

Command the sons of Israel, and they shall send forth from the camp every one leprous, and every one flowing, and every one unclean for the soul:

Leviticus 15:2

Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, When a man, a man, there shall be a flowing from his flesh, his flowing unclean.

Defilement » Caused by » Touching the carcass of any ceremonially unclean animal

Leviticus 17:15-16

And every soul which shall eat a carcass and torn in pieces among the native or the stranger, and he washed his garments and washed in water, and was unclean till the evening: and he was clean. And if he shall not wash his garments, and bathe not his flesh, and he shall bear his iniquity.

Leviticus 11:39-40

And when there shall die from the cattle which is to you for eating, he touching upon its carcass shall be unclean till the evening. And he eating from its carcass shall cleanse his garments, and be unclean till the evening; and he lifting up its carcass shall wash his garments and be unclean till the evening.

Defilement » What defiles the house of God

Jeremiah 19:12-13

Thus will I do to this place, says Jehovah, and to its inhabitants, and to give this city as Tophet: And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah were defiled as the place of Tophet to all the houses which they burnt incense upon their roofs to all the army of the heavens, and pouring out libations to other gods

Jeremiah 32:34-36

And they will set their abominations in the house which my name was called upon it, to defile it And they will build the heights of Baal which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through to Molech, which I commanded them not; and it came not up upon my heart to do this abomination to cause Judah to sin. And now for this, thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, to this city of which ye are saying, It was given into the hand of the king of Babel by sword and by famine, and by death.

Defilement » Caused by » Leprosy

Leviticus 13:3

And the priest saw the stroke in the skin of the flesh: and the hair in the stroke turned white, and the sight of the stroke deep from the skin of his flesh, it is the stroke of leprosy: and the priest saw him and defiled him.

Leviticus 13:44-46

He a leprous man, he unclean: he being unclean the priest shall defile him; his stroke in his head. And the leprous in whom the stroke, his garments shall be rent, and his head shall be uncovered, and upon the lips he shall be covered, and he shall cry, Unclean, unlcean. All the days which the stroke is in him, he shall be unclean: he is unclean: he shall dwell separately; without the camp is his dwelling.

Leviticus 22:4-7

A man, a man from the seed of Aaron, and he leprous or flowing; he shall not eat of the holies till he shall be clean. And he touching upon any unclean soul, or a man which shall go forth from him the effusion of seed; Or a man who shall touch upon any creeping thing which shall be unclean to him, or upon a man who shall be unclean to him for all his uncleanness; The soul which shall touch upon it, and it shall be unclean till the evening, and he shall not eat from the holies, except he washed his flesh in water. read more.
And the sun went down and he was clean; and afterwards he shall eat from the holies for it is his bread.

Defilement » Laws relating to

Leviticus 11:43

Ye shall not make your souls abominable by any creeping thing creeping, and ye shall not be unclean by them, and be defiled by them.

Leviticus 7:18-21

And if eating, he shall eat from the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace in the third day, it shall not be accepted; he bringing it near, it shall not be imputed to him: it shall be an abomination, and the soul eating from it shall bear its iniquity. And the flesh which shall touch upon any unclean thing shall not be eaten; it shall be burnt in fire: and of all clean flesh, the flesh shall be eaten. And the soul which shall eat the flesh of the sacrifice of peace which to Jehovah, and his uncleanness upon him, that soul was cut off from its people. read more.
And when a soul shall touch upon anything unclean, upon the uncleanness of man, or upon unclean cattle, or upon any abominable unclean thing, and eat from the flesh of the sacrifice of peace, which is to Jehovah, that soul was cut off from its people.

Leviticus 22:2-7

Speak to Aaron and to his sons, and they shall separate themselves from the holies of the sons of Israel, and they shall not profane my holy name which they consecrate to me: I Jehovah. Say to them, For your generations every man who shall come near from all your seed to the holies which the sons of Israel: shall consecrate to Jehovah, and his uncleanness upon him, and that soul was cut off from before me: I Jehovah. A man, a man from the seed of Aaron, and he leprous or flowing; he shall not eat of the holies till he shall be clean. And he touching upon any unclean soul, or a man which shall go forth from him the effusion of seed; read more.
Or a man who shall touch upon any creeping thing which shall be unclean to him, or upon a man who shall be unclean to him for all his uncleanness; The soul which shall touch upon it, and it shall be unclean till the evening, and he shall not eat from the holies, except he washed his flesh in water. And the sun went down and he was clean; and afterwards he shall eat from the holies for it is his bread.

Defilement » Causes of, improperly enlarged by tradition

Mark 7:2

And having seen some of his disciples with common hands, that is, unwashed, eating loaves, they rebuked.

Matthew 15:20

These are the things polluting a man: but to eat with unwashed hands pollutes not a man.

Defilement » Illustrative » Of unholy doctrines

1 Corinthians 3:16-17

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and the spirit of God dwells in you? If any one destroy the temple of God, him will God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which ye are.

Defilement » Caused by » Touching the dead

Numbers 19:11-22

He touching upon the dead of any soul of man and he was unclean seven days. He shall purify himself in the third day, and in the seventh day he shall be clean: and if he shall not be purified in the third day, in the seventh day he shall not be clean. All touching upon the dead, upon the soul of man which shall die, and shall not be purified, defiled the dwelling of Jehovah; and that soul was cut off from Israel: for the water of uncleanness was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness yet upon him. read more.
This the law of a man when he shall die in the tent; all going into the tent and all who are in the tent, shall be unclean seven days. And every vessel being open which a cord was not bound upon it, it is unclean. And every one who shall touch upon the face of the field, upon the wounded of the sword, or upon the dead, or upon the bone of man, or upon a grave, shall be unclean seven days. And they took for the unclean from the dust of the burning of sin, and living water was given upon it into a vessel: And a clean man took hyssop and dipped in water and sprinkled upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the souls which were there, and upon him touching upon a bone, or upon the wounded, or upon the the dead, or upon a grave: And he being clean sprinkled upon the unclean in the third day, and in the seventh day: and he was cleansed in the seventh day, and he washed his garments and bathed in water, and was clean in the evening. And a man who shall be unclean and shall not be purified, and that soul was cut off from the midst of the gathering, for he defiled the holy place of Jehovah: the water of uncleanness was not sprinkled upon him; he is unclean. And it was to them for a law forever, and he sprinkling the water of uncleanness shall wash his garments; and he touching upon the water of uncleanness shall be unclean till the evening. And all which the unclean shall touch upon it, shall be unclean; and the soul touching shall be unclean till the evening.

Numbers 31:19-20

And encamp ye without the camp seven days: every one killing a soul, and every one touching upon the wounded, ye shall be purified in the third day, and in the seventh day, ye and your captivity. And every garment and every vessel of skin, and every work of goats' hair, and every vessel of wood, ye shall purify.

Defilement » Caused by » Menses

Leviticus 15:19-33

And when a woman, shall be flowing, and her flowing shall be blood in her flesh, seven days shall she be in her uncleanness: and all touching upon her shall be unclean till the evening. And every thing which she shall lie upon it in her uncleanness, shall be unclean: and every thing which she shall sit upon it shall be unclean. And every one touching upon her bed shall wash his garments; and he washed in water and was unclean till the evening. read more.
And every one touching upon any vessel which she shall sit upon it, shall wash his garments, and he washed in water and was unclean till evening. And if it is upon the bed or upon the vessel which she sat upon it, in his touching upon it he shall be unclean till the evening. And if lying down a man shall lie with her and her uncleanness shall be upon him, and he was unclean seven days: and every bed which he shall lie upon, it shall be unclean. And when a woman shall flow a flowing of her blood many days out of the time of her uncleanness, or when she shall flow upon her uncleanness; all the days of the flowing from her uncleanness shall be as the days of her uncleanness: she shall be unclean. Every bed which she shall lie upon it all the days of her flowing, shall be to her as the bed of her uncleanness; and every vessel which she shall sit upon it shall be unclean, as the impurity of her uncleanness. And every one touching upon them shall be unclean, and he washed his garments, and washed in water, and was unclean till the evening. And if she was cleansed from her flowing, and she numbered to her seven days, and afterward she shall be clean. And in the eighth day she shall take to her two turtle-doves, or two sons of the dove, and she brought them to the priest to the door of the tent of appointment. And the priest did the one a sin, and the one a burnt-offering; and the priest expiated for her, before Jehovah, from the flowing of her uncleanness. And ye winnowed the sons of Israel from their uncleanness; and they shall not die in their uncleanness in defiling my dwelling which is in the midst of you. This the law of him flowing, and of whom the effusion of seed shall go forth from him, to be defiled in it: And of her being sick in her uncleanness, and of him flowing his flowing; for the male, and for the female, and for the man who shall lie with her being unclean.

2 Samuel 11:4

And David will send messengers and take her: and she will come in to him, and he will lie with her; (and she being consecrated from her uncleanness:) and she will turn back to her house.

Defilement » Those that defile the temple of God

1 Corinthians 3:16-17

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and the spirit of God dwells in you? If any one destroy the temple of God, him will God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which ye are.

Defilement » Caused by » Childbirth

Leviticus 12:2-8

Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, When a woman shall bear seed and bring forth a male, and she was unclean seven days: according to the days of removal of being sick she shall be unclean. And in the eighth day the flesh of his uncircumcision shall be circumcised. And thirty days and three days, she shall sit down in the blood of purification: she shall not touch upon any holy thing, and into the holy place she shall not come till the completing of the days of her purification. read more.
And if she shall bear a female, and she was unclean two sevens, as her removal: and sixty days and six days she shall sit down upon the blood of her purification. And in completing the days of her purification, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb, the son of his year, for a burnt-offering, and the son of a dove, or a turtle-dove, for the sin, to the door of the tent of appointment, to the priest And he offered it before Jehovah, and expiated for her, and cleansed her from the flowing of her blood. This the law of the bringing forth for a male, or for a female. And if her hand shall not find the sufficiency of a sheep, and she took two turtle-doves or two sons of the dove; one for a burnt-offering, and one for sin: and the priest expiated for her, and she was clean.

Luke 2:22

And when the days of her cleansing were completed, according to the law of Moses, they brought him to Jerusalem to present to the Lord;

Defilement » Those that defile themselves

Leviticus 18:24-29

Ye shall not be defiled in any of these, for in all these the nations were defiled which I send out from your face. And the land shall be defiled: and I will strike iniquity upon it, and the land shall vomit forth its inhabitants. And ye watched these my laws, and my judgments, and ye shall not do from all of these abominations, the native and the stranger sojourning in your midst: read more.
For all these abominations did the men of the land which were before you, and the land shall be defiled. And the land shall not vomit you forth in your defiling it, as it vomited forth the nations which were before you. For every one which shall do from all of these abominations, and the souls doing were cut off from the midst of their people

Defilement » Forbidden to the jews

Leviticus 11:44-45

For I am Jehovah, your God, and ye were consecrated and ye were holy, for I am holy: and ye shall not make your souls unclean by any creeping thing creeping upon the earth. For I am Jehovah bringing up from the land of Egypt, to be to you for God: and ye shall be holy, for I am holy.

Defilement » Things liable to ceremonial » Furniture, &c

Leviticus 15:9-10

And every seat which he flowing shall ride upon it, shall be unclean. And every one touching upon any thing which shall be under him, shall be unclean till the evening: and he lifting up these things, shall wash his garments, and he washed in water, and was unclean till the evening.

Defilement » Ceremonial caused by » Touching anything defiled by an issue, &c

Leviticus 15:5-11

And a man who shall touch upon his bed, shall cleanse his garments and shall wash in water, and be unclean till evening. And he sitting upon a vessel which he flowing, shall sit upon it, shall cleanse his garments, and wash in water, and shall be unclean till the evening. And he touching upon the flesh of him flowing, shall wash his garments, and wash in water, and shall be unclean till the evening. read more.
And if he flowing shall spit upon the clean; and he washed his garments, and washed in water, and was unclean till the evening. And every seat which he flowing shall ride upon it, shall be unclean. And every one touching upon any thing which shall be under him, shall be unclean till the evening: and he lifting up these things, shall wash his garments, and he washed in water, and was unclean till the evening. And every one which he flowing shall touch upon him (and washed not his hands in water), he washed his garments, and washed in water and was unclean till the evening.

Defilement » Ceremonial caused by » Mourning for the dead

Leviticus 21:1-3

And Jehovah will say to Moses, Say to the priests the sons of Aaron, and say to them, for the soul he shall not be defiled among his peoples. But if for his remainder coming near to him, for his mother and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother, And for his sister, a virgin, coming near to him, who was not for a husband for her, he shall be defiled.

Defilement » Caused by » Gonorrhea

Leviticus 15:1-15

And Jehovah will speak to Moses and to Aaron, saying, Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, When a man, a man, there shall be a flowing from his flesh, his flowing unclean. And this shall be his uncleanness in his flowing: his flesh running with his flowing, or his flesh sealed up from his flowing, it is his uncleanness. read more.
Every bed which he flowing shall lie upon it, shall be unclean: and every vessel which he shall sit upon it, shall be unclean. And a man who shall touch upon his bed, shall cleanse his garments and shall wash in water, and be unclean till evening. And he sitting upon a vessel which he flowing, shall sit upon it, shall cleanse his garments, and wash in water, and shall be unclean till the evening. And he touching upon the flesh of him flowing, shall wash his garments, and wash in water, and shall be unclean till the evening. And if he flowing shall spit upon the clean; and he washed his garments, and washed in water, and was unclean till the evening. And every seat which he flowing shall ride upon it, shall be unclean. And every one touching upon any thing which shall be under him, shall be unclean till the evening: and he lifting up these things, shall wash his garments, and he washed in water, and was unclean till the evening. And every one which he flowing shall touch upon him (and washed not his hands in water), he washed his garments, and washed in water and was unclean till the evening. And the vessel of earthen which he flowing shall touch upon it, shall be broken: and every vessel of wood shall be washed in water. And when he flowing shall be cleansed from his flowing, and he numbered to him seven days for his cleansing, and he washed his garments and washed his flesh in living water, and was clean. And in the eighth day he shall take to him two turtle-doves, or two sons of the dove, and he came before Jehovah at the door of the tent of appointment, and he gave them to the priest. And the priest did them, one a sin and the one a burnt-offering; and the priest expiated for him before Jehovah from his flowing.

Leviticus 22:4

A man, a man from the seed of Aaron, and he leprous or flowing; he shall not eat of the holies till he shall be clean. And he touching upon any unclean soul, or a man which shall go forth from him the effusion of seed;

Defilement » Cleansed by legal ablutions

Numbers 19:18-19

And a clean man took hyssop and dipped in water and sprinkled upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the souls which were there, and upon him touching upon a bone, or upon the wounded, or upon the the dead, or upon a grave: And he being clean sprinkled upon the unclean in the third day, and in the seventh day: and he was cleansed in the seventh day, and he washed his garments and bathed in water, and was clean in the evening.

Defilement » Things liable to ceremonial » Garments

Leviticus 13:59

This the law of the stroke of leprosy of the garment of wool, or of linen, or the warp or the woof, or every vessel of skin, to cleanse it or to defile it

Defilement » Things liable to ceremonial » Houses

Leviticus 14:44

And the priest came and saw, and behold, the stroke spread in the house; it a painful leprosy in the house: it is unclean.

Defilement » Ceremonial caused by » Going into a leprous house

Leviticus 14:46

And he coming in to the house all the days it is shut up, shall be unclean till the evening.

Defilement » Ceremonial caused by » Eating things that died

Leviticus 17:15

And every soul which shall eat a carcass and torn in pieces among the native or the stranger, and he washed his garments and washed in water, and was unclean till the evening: and he was clean.

Defilement » Moral, caused by » Following the sins of the heathen

Leviticus 18:24

Ye shall not be defiled in any of these, for in all these the nations were defiled which I send out from your face.

Defilement » Moral, caused by » Seeking after wizards

Defilement » Moral, caused by » Giving children to molech

Leviticus 20:3

And I will give my face against that man and cut him off from the midst of his people; for he gave from his seed to Molech, in order to defile my holy place and to profane my holy name.

Defilement » priests » Punished for eating of the holy things while under

Leviticus 22:3

Say to them, For your generations every man who shall come near from all your seed to the holies which the sons of Israel: shall consecrate to Jehovah, and his uncleanness upon him, and that soul was cut off from before me: I Jehovah.

Defilement » Child-bearing

Leviticus 12:2

Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, When a woman shall bear seed and bring forth a male, and she was unclean seven days: according to the days of removal of being sick she shall be unclean.

Defilement » Things liable to ceremonial » The person

Leviticus 5:3

Or when he shall touch upon the uncleanness of man, for all uncleanness which he shall be unclean in it, and it was hidden from him; and he shall know, and be guilty.

Defilement » Ceremonial caused by » Gathering ashes of the red heifer

Numbers 19:10

And he gathering the ashes of the heifer washed his garments, and was unclean till the evening: and it shall be to the sons of Israel, and to the stranger sojourning in the midst of them, for a law forever.

Defilement » Ceremonial caused by » Being alone with a dead body

Numbers 19:14

This the law of a man when he shall die in the tent; all going into the tent and all who are in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.

Defilement » Ceremonial caused by » Touching an unclean person

Numbers 19:22

And all which the unclean shall touch upon it, shall be unclean; and the soul touching shall be unclean till the evening.

Defilement » Ceremonial caused by » Touching a grave

Numbers 19:16

And every one who shall touch upon the face of the field, upon the wounded of the sword, or upon the dead, or upon the bone of man, or upon a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

Defilement » Those that are defiled

Titus 1:15-16

All things truly pure to the pure: and to the defiled and unbelieving nothing pure; but also their mind and consciousness are defiled. They confess to know God; and in works they deny, being abominable, and disobedient, and to every good work not tried.

Defilement » Those under, removed from the camp

Numbers 5:3-4

From male even to female ye shall send them forth, without the camp shall ye send them; and they shall not defile their camp where I dwell in the midst of them. And the sons of Israel will do so, and they will send them forth without the camp: as Jehovah spake to Moses, so did the sons of Israel.

Defilement » Ceremonial caused by » Sacrificing the red heifer

Numbers 19:7

And the priest washed his garments, and bathed his flesh in water, and afterward he shall go into the camp; and the priest was unclean till evening.

Defilement » Ceremonial caused by » Burning the red heifer

Numbers 19:8

And he burning her shall wash his garments in water, and bathed his flesh in water, and was unclean till the evening.

Defilement » Moral, caused by » Blood shedding

Isaiah 59:3

For your hands were polluted with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips spake falsehood, your tongue will mutter evil.

Defilement » Caused by » Killing in battle

Numbers 31:19-20

And encamp ye without the camp seven days: every one killing a soul, and every one touching upon the wounded, ye shall be purified in the third day, and in the seventh day, ye and your captivity. And every garment and every vessel of skin, and every work of goats' hair, and every vessel of wood, ye shall purify.

Defilement » Caused by » Spermatorrhea

Leviticus 15:16-17

And a man, when the effusion of seed shall go forth from him, and he washed in water all his flesh, and was unclean till the evening And every garment and every akin, which shall be upon it the effusion of seed, and it was washed in water, and was unclean till the evening.

Defilement » Moral, punished

Leviticus 18:24-25

Ye shall not be defiled in any of these, for in all these the nations were defiled which I send out from your face. And the land shall be defiled: and I will strike iniquity upon it, and the land shall vomit forth its inhabitants.

Defilement » Who defiles the flesh

Jude 1:7-8

As Sodom and Gomorrha and the cities about them, debauched in like manner to these, and having gone away after other flesh, are set before a sample of eternal fire, enduring punishment. And likewise indeed these dreaming truly defile the flesh, and despise dominion, and defame glories.

Defilement » Contact with sinners falsely supposed to cause

John 18:28

Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas to the pretorium: and it was early morning; and they came not into the pretorium, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the pascha.

Defilement » Caused by » Copulation

Leviticus 15:17

And every garment and every akin, which shall be upon it the effusion of seed, and it was washed in water, and was unclean till the evening.

Defilement » Egyptian usage, concerning

Genesis 43:32

And they will set for him alone, and for them alone, and the Egyptians eating with him, alone; for the Egyptians will not be able to eat bread with the Hebrews; for it is abomination to the Egyptians.

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Defilement, By Sin

Ezekiel 14:11

So that the house of Israel shall no more wander from after me, and they shall no more be defiled with all their transgressions; and they were to me for a people, and I will be to them for God, says the Lord Jehovah.

Defilement, Ceremonial Causes

Leviticus 20:25

And ye separated between clean cattle to unclean, and between unclean birds and clean: and ye shall not make you souls abhorred by cattle or bird, and by any which shall creep upon the earth which I separated to you for unclean.

Defilement, Objects Of

1 Corinthians 8:7

But not in all, knowledge: and some with consciousness of the idol even till now eat as a sacrifice to idols: and their consciousness being weak is contaminated.

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