49 Bible Verses about Purity, Nature Of

Let a little water be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:

Though I washed my self with snowy water, and made mine hands never so clean,

The words of the LORD are pure words: even as the silver, which from the earth is tried, and purified seven times in the fire.

that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean, and that ye may teach the children of Israel all the ordinances which the LORD hath commanded them by the hands of Moses."

There shall be foot paths and common streets: this shall be called the holy way. No unclean person shall go through it, for the LORD himself shall go with them that way, and the ignorant shall not err.

Up, Zion, up: take thy strength unto thee. Put on thy honest raiment O Jerusalem, thou city of the holy one. For from this time forth, there shall no uncircumcised nor unclean person come in thee.

And when they saw certain of his disciples eat bread with common hands, that is to say, with unwashen hands, they complained.

"Speak unto the children of Israel, and say, 'When a woman hath conceived and hath borne a manchild, she shall be unclean seven days: even in like manner as when she is put apart in time of her natural disease.

If she bear a maidchild, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as when she hath her natural disease. And she shall continue in the blood of her purifying sixty six days.

And when the time of their purification, after the law of Moses, was come they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord:

And he said unto the people, "Be ready against the third day, and see that ye come not at your wives."

And if a woman lie with such a one, they shall wash themselves with water and be unclean until even.

And the priest answered David and said, "There is no common bread under mine hand - but there is hallowed bread, if the young men have abstained only from women."

"'If any man's seed depart from him in his sleep, he shall wash his flesh in water and be unclean until evening. And all the clothes or furs whereon such seed chanceth shall be washed with water and be unclean unto the evening.

If there be any man that is unclean by the reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night, let him go out of the host and not come in again, until he have washed himself with water before the evening: and then when the sun is down, let him come into the host again.

Nevertheless, yet Saul said nothing at all that day. For he thought, 'Something has chanced him that he is not clean.'

When a woman's natural course of blood runneth, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean unto the evening. And all that she lieth or sitteth upon as long as she is put apart shall be unclean.

And it chanced in an evening that David arose from his couch and walked upon the roof of the king's palace; and from the roof saw a very beautiful woman washing herself. And he sent to enquire what woman it should be. And it was answered again, that she was Bathsheba the daughter of Eliam and wife to Uriah the Hittite. And David sent messengers and fetched her, and she came unto him, and he lay with her. And she was straightway purified of her uncleanness, and returned unto her house.

he eateth not upon the hills; he lifteth not his eyes up to the Idols of Israel; he defileth not his neighbour's wife; he meddleth with no menstruous woman;

And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, saying, "Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them, 'Every man that hath a running issue in his flesh, is unclean by the reason of his issue.

And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him and touched the hem of his vesture:

And there was a certain woman, which was diseased of an issue of blood twelve years,

And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years: which had spent all her substance among Physicians, neither could be helped of any:

"'He that toucheth any dead person, shall be unclean seven days. And he shall purify himself with the ashes the third day and then he shall be clean the seventh day. And if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day, he shall not be clean. Whosoever toucheth any person that dieth and sprinkleth not himself, defileth the dwelling of the LORD: and therefore that soul shall be rooted out of Israel, because he hath not sprinkled the sprinkling water upon him, he shall be unclean, and his uncleanness shall remain upon him.read more.
This is the law of the man that dieth in a tent: all that come into the tent and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days. And all the vessels that be open which have no lid nor covering upon them, are unclean. And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the fields, or a dead person, or a bone of a dead man, or a grave: shall be unclean seven days.

Of all clean beasts take unto thee seven of every kind, the male and his female, and of unclean beasts a pair, the male and his female:

In such ye shall be unclean: whosoever touch the carcass of them shall be unclean unto the even,

Ye shall eat no manner of abomination.

They will not dwell in the LORD's land, but Ephraim turneth again into Egypt, and eateth unclean things among the Assyrians.

"And the leper, in whom the plague is, shall have his clothes rent and his head bare and his mouth muffled and shall be called unclean.

And, lo, there came a leper and worshipped him saying, "Master, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean." And Jesus put forth his hand and touched him, saying, "I will; be thou clean." And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. And Jesus said unto him, "See thou tell no man; but go, and show thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, to be offered in witness to them."

And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeled down unto him, and said unto him, "If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean." And Jesus had compassion on him, and put forth his hand, touched him, and said unto him, "I will, be thou clean." And as soon as he had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was cleansed.read more.
And he charged him and sent him away forthwith and said unto him, "See that thou say nothing to any man, but get thee hence and show thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing those things which Moses commanded, for a testimonial unto them."

And it fortuned as he was in a certain city, behold, there was a man full of leprosy: and when he had spied Jesus, he fell on his face and besought him saying, "Lord if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean." And he stretched forth the hand, and touched him, saying, "I will, be thou clean." And immediately the leprosy departed from him. And he warned him, that he should tell no man: but that he should go and show himself to the priest, and offer for his cleansing according as Moses commandment was, for a witness unto them.

And the priest shall command them to rid all things out of the house, before the priest go in to see the plague: that he make not all that is in the house unclean, and then the priest shall go in and see the house.

And let him that carried forth the scapegoat wash his clothes and bathe his flesh in water, and then come into the host again.

"And he that is cleansed shall wash his clothes and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, and then he is clean. And after that he shall come into the host, but shall tarry without his tent seven days.

And they shall take for an unclean person, of the burnt ashes of the sin offering, and put running water thereto into a vessel. And a clean person shall take Hyssop and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent and upon all the vessels and on the souls that were there, and upon him that touched a bone or a slain person or a dead body or a grave. And the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean the third day and the seventh day. And the seventh day he shall purify himself and wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at evening.read more.
"'If any be unclean and sprinkle not himself, the same soul shall be destroyed from among the congregation: for he hath defiled the holy place of the LORD. And he that sprinkleth the sprinkling water, shall wash his clothes. And he that toucheth the sprinkling water, shall be unclean until even.

Gold, silver, brass, iron, tin and lead, and all that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and then it is clean. Neverthelater, it shall be sprinkled with sprinkling water. And all that suffereth not the fire, ye shall make go through the water.

And the LORD said unto Moses, "Go unto the people and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes:

And Moses went down from the mount unto the people and sanctified them, and they washed their clothes. And he said unto the people, "Be ready against the third day, and see that ye come not at your wives."

"Thou shalt make a laver of brass and his foot also of brass to wash withal, and shalt put it between the tabernacle of witness and the altar and put water therein: that Aaron and his sons may wash both their hands and their feet thereout, when they go into the tabernacle of witness, or when they go unto the altar to minister and to burn the LORD's offering, lest they die.read more.
And it shall be an ordinance forever unto him and his seed among your children after you."

let us draw nigh with a true heart in a full faith sprinkled in our hearts, from an evil conscience, and washed in our bodies with pure water,

That which goeth into the mouth, defileth not the man: but that which cometh out of the mouth, defileth the man."

There is nothing without a man that can defile him when it entereth into him, but those things which proceed out of him are those which defile the man.

wherein were all manner of four footed beasts of the earth and vermin and worms, and fouls of the air. And there came a voice to him, "Rise, Peter. Kill and eat." But Peter said, "God forbid Lord, for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean."read more.
And the voice spake unto him again the second time, "What God hath cleansed that make thou not common."

Then the next day, Paul took the men and purified himself with them, and entered into the temple, declaring that he observed the days of the purification, until that an offering should be offered for every one of them.

For I know, and am full certified in the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing common of itself: but unto him that judgeth it to be common, to him it is common.

And when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him in the face, for he was worthy to be blamed. For yer that certain came from James, he ate with the gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision,

But when I saw that they went not the right way after the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter, before all men, "If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of the gentiles, and not as do the Jews: why causest thou the gentiles to live as do the Jews?" We which are Jews by nature and not sinners of the gentiles,

For all the creatures of God are good: and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: