16 Bible Verses about People Being Unclean

Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you,

We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

And I said: "Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!"

There are those who are clean in their own eyes but are not washed of their filth.

Her uncleanness was in her skirts; she took no thought of her future; therefore her fall is terrible; she has no comforter. "O LORD, behold my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed!"

Yet Saul did not say anything that day, for he thought, "Something has happened to him. He is not clean; surely he is not clean."

I have seen your abominations, your adulteries and neighings, your lewd whorings, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will it be before you are made clean?"

"Both prophet and priest are ungodly; even in my house I have found their evil, declares the LORD.

Though you wash yourself with lye and use much soap, the stain of your guilt is still before me, declares the Lord GOD.

For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, "Not all of you are clean."

On account of your unclean lewdness, because I would have cleansed you and you were not cleansed from your uncleanness, you shall not be cleansed anymore till I have satisfied my fury upon you.

How can you say, 'I am not unclean, I have not gone after the Baals'? Look at your way in the valley; know what you have done-- a restless young camel running here and there,

Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I have never defiled myself.From my youth up till now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has tainted meat come into my mouth."

Let the evildoer still do evil, and the filthy still be filthy, and the righteous still do right, and the holy still be holy."

And he said to them, "You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with or to visit anyone of another nation, but God has shown me that I should not call any person common or unclean.

For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.