56 Bible Verses about Purity, Moral And Spiritual

Purer of eyes than to behold evil, To look on perverseness Thou art not able, Why dost Thou behold the treacherous? Thou keepest silent when the wicked Doth swallow the more righteous than he,

'Is mortal man than God more righteous? Than his Maker is a man cleaner?

With the pure Thou showest Thyself pure, And with the perverse showest Thyself a wrestler,

And this is the message that we have heard from Him, and announce to you, that God is light, and darkness in Him is not at all;

and every one who is having this hope on him, doth purify himself, even as he is pure.

and he was transfigured before them, and his face shone as the sun, and his garments did become white as the light,

For such a chief priest did become us -- kind, harmless, undefiled, separate from the sinners, and become higher than the heavens,

Who goeth up into the hill of Jehovah? And who riseth up in His holy place? The clean of hands, and pure of heart, Who hath not lifted up to vanity his soul, Nor hath sworn to deceit.

Happy the clean in heart -- because they shall see God.

Lo, truth Thou hast desired in the inward parts, And in the hidden part Wisdom Thou causest me to know.

A Psalm of Asaph. Only -- good to Israel is God, to the clean of heart. And I -- as a little thing, My feet have been turned aside,

Put to death, then, your members that are upon the earth -- whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry --

and ye have kept My charge, so as not to do any of the abominable statutes which have been done before you, and ye do not defile yourselves with them; I am Jehovah your God.'

A covenant I made for mine eyes, And what -- do I attend to a virgin?

A clean heart prepare for me, O God, And a right spirit renew within me.

cleanse out, therefore, the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, according as ye are unleavened, for also our passover for us was sacrificed -- Christ, so that we may keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of evil and wickedness, but with unleavened food of sincerity and truth.

Have ye not known that your bodies are members of Christ? having taken, then, the members of the Christ, shall I make them members of an harlot? let it be not! have ye not known that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? 'for they shall be -- saith He -- the two for one flesh.' And he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit;read more.
flee the whoredom; every sin -- whatever a man may commit -- is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin. Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own, for ye were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

for this is the will of God -- your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,

all things, indeed, are pure to the pure, and to the defiled and unstedfast is nothing pure, but of them defiled are even the mind and the conscience;

sober, pure, keepers of their own houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.

honourable is the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation -- unspotted to keep himself from the world.

draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you; cleanse hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled!

Who giveth a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

What is man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman?

And what? is man righteous with God? And what? is he pure -- born of a woman?

Cast off hath thy calf, O Samaria, Burned hath Mine anger against them, Till when are they not capable of purity?

A generation -- pure in their own eyes, But from their own filth not washed.

Who saith, 'I have purified my heart, I have been cleansed from my sin?'

In thine uncleanness is wickedness, Because I have cleansed thee, And thou hast not been cleansed, From thine uncleanness thou art not cleansed again, Till I have caused My fury to rest on thee.

Thou cleansest me with hyssop and I am clean, Washest me, and than snow I am whiter.

And flee unto me doth one of the seraphs, and in his hand a burning coal, (with tongs he hath taken it from off the altar,)

John came baptizing in the wilderness, and proclaiming a baptism of reformation -- to remission of sins,

for I am zealous for you with zeal of God, for I did betroth you to one husband, a pure virgin, to present to Christ,

wherefore, beloved, these things waiting for, be diligent, spotless and unblameable, by Him to be found in peace,

And I have sprinkled over you clean water, And ye have been clean; From all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols, I do cleanse you.

For then do I turn unto peoples a pure lip, To call all of them by the name of Jehovah, To serve Him with one shoulder.

In that day there is a fountain opened To the house of David And to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, For sin and for impurity.

how much more shall the blood of the Christ (who through the age-during Spirit did offer himself unblemished to God) purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

and to a mediator of a new covenant -- Jesus, and to blood of sprinkling, speaking better things than that of Abel!

and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light -- we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;

already ye are clean, because of the word that I have spoken to you;

Jesus saith to him, 'He who hath been bathed hath no need save to wash his feet, but he is clean altogether; and ye are clean, but not all;'

be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you; draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you; cleanse hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled!

whom resist, stedfast in the faith, having known the same sufferings to your brotherhood in the world to be accomplished.

teaching us, that denying the impiety and the worldly desires, soberly and righteously and piously we may live in the present age, waiting for the blessed hope and manifestation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ,

and the land doth not vomit you out in your defiling it, as it hath vomited out the nation which is before you;

'And that prophet, or that dreamer of the dream, is put to death, for he hath spoken apostasy against Jehovah your God (who is bringing you out of the land of Egypt, and hath ransomed you out of a house of servants), to drive you out of the way in which Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee to walk, and thou hast put away the evil thing from thy midst.

the hand of the witnesses is on him, in the first place, to put him to death, and the hand of all the people last; and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst.

And now, give up the men -- sons of worthlessness -- which are in Gibeah, and we put them to death, and we put away evil from Israel.' And the sons of Benjamin have not been willing to hearken to the voice of their brethren, the sons of Israel;

And who is bearing the day of his coming? And who is standing in his appearing? For he is as fire of a refiner, And as soap of a fuller. And he hath sat, a refiner and purifier of silver, And he hath purified the sons of Levi, And hath refined them as gold and as silver, And they have been to Jehovah bringing nigh a present in righteousness. And sweet to Jehovah hath been the present of Judah and Jerusalem, As in days of old, and as in former years.

and those without God doth judge; and put ye away the evil from among yourselves.

I was seeing till that thrones have been thrown down, and the Ancient of Days is seated, His garment as snow is white, and the hair of his head is as pure wool, His throne flames of fire, its wheels burning fire.

Come, I pray you, and we reason, saith Jehovah, If your sins are as scarlet, as snow they shall be white, If they are red as crimson, as wool they shall be!

and his garments became glittering, white exceedingly, as snow, so as a fuller upon the earth is not able to whiten them.

and his countenance was as lightning, and his clothing white as snow,