1324 verses about Purification

and all those who were of the captivity; for they were sanctified. For the Levites were all sanctified together,

and they offered the passover for all them of the captivity, and for their kindred the priests, and for themselves.

And the children of Israel that came out of the captivity did eat, even all those who had separated themselves from the abominations of the heathen of the land, and sought the Lord.

And the holy vessels of the Lord, which are given you for the use of the temple of your God, which is in Jerusalem:

The nation of Israel, and the princes, and the priests and the Levites, have not put away from them the strange people of the land, nor the uncleannesses of the Gentiles, to wit, of the Canaanites, Hittites, Pherezites, Jebusites, and the Moabites, Egyptians, and Edomites.

For both they and their sons have married with their daughters, and the holy seed is mixed with the strange people of the land; and from the beginning of this matter the rulers and the nobles have been partakers of this iniquity.

That the land, which you⌃ enter into to possess as a heritage, is a land polluted with the pollutions of the strangers of the land, and they have filled it with their uncleanness.

and did give to us such a root: but we have turned back again to transgress your law, in mingling ourselves with the uncleanness of the heathen of the land.

and do his will, and separate yourselves from the heathen of the land, and from the strange women.

So their cause that held strange wives was brought to an end by the new moon of the first month.

And they gave their hands to put away their wives, and to offer rams to make reconcilement for their error.

Having arrived at Jerusalem, sacrificed, and offered thank-offerings to the Greatest God, and done whatever else was suitable to the sanctity of the place, and entered the inner court,

Not the men only, but the very walls and floor seemed to sound forth; all things preferring dissolution rather than to see the place defiled.

I gave you not fire for your blasphemies, but cast a tree in the water, and made the river sweet.

After this there passed by before me a watery cloud, and sent down much rain with a storm; and when the stormy rain was past, the drops remained therein still.

but shall go into a field of flowers, where no house is built, and eat only of the flowers of the field; and you shall taste no flesh, and shall drink no wine, but shall eat flowers only;)

Let no man therefore come to me now, nor seek after me these forty days.

Then shall be manifest the trial of my elect; even as the gold that is tried in the fire.

For they, winning admiration not only from men in general, but even from the persecutors, for their manliness and endurance, became the means of the destruction of the tyranny against their nation, having conquered the tyrant by their endurance, so that by them their country was purified.

And reasoning, the universal husbandman, purging, and pruning these severally, and binding round, and watering, and transplanting, in every way improves the materials of the morals and affections.

Let my blood be a purification for them, and take my life in recompense for theirs.

and that the tyrant was punished, and their country purified.

They were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.

But John would have hindered him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and you come to me?”

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

But you, when you fast, anoint your head, and wash your face;

Behold, a leper came to him and worshiped him, saying, “Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean.”

Jesus stretched out his hand, and touched him, saying, “I want to. Be made clean.” Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.

“Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat bread.”

That which enters into the mouth doesn’t defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.”

Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and then out of the body?

These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn’t defile the man.”

I baptized you in water, but he will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.”

Being moved with compassion, he stretched out his hand, and touched him, and said to him, “I want to. Be made clean.”

and said to him, “See you say nothing to anybody, but go show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing the things which Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.”

Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is unwashed, hands, they found fault.

(For the Pharisees and all the Jews, don’t eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders.

They don’t eat when they come from the marketplace unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things, which they have received to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.)

The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why don’t your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?”

There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.

He said to them, “Are you also without understanding? Don’t you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can’t defile him,

because it doesn’t go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, thus purifying all foods ?”

For everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt.

Now while he executed the priest’s office before God in the order of his division,

according to the custom of the priest’s office, his lot was to enter into the temple of the Lord and burn incense.

When eight days were fulfilled for the circumcision of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

When the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were fulfilled, they brought him up to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord

and to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, “A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.” Leviticus 12:8

John answered them all, “I indeed baptize you with water, but he comes who is mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to loosen. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire,

whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor, and will gather the wheat into his barn; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

While he was in one of the cities, behold, there was a man full of leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he fell on his face, and begged him, saying, “Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean.”

He commanded him to tell no one, “But go your way, and show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing according to what Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.”

When he returns, he finds it swept and put in order.

When the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first washed himself before dinner.

But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

“I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled.

As he entered into a certain village, ten men who were lepers met him, who stood at a distance.

When he saw them, he said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” As they went, they were cleansed.

Jesus answered, “Weren’t the ten cleansed? But where are the nine?

They asked him, “Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?”

The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

I didn’t know him, but for this reason I came baptizing in water: that he would be revealed to Israel.”

Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews’ way of purifying, containing two or three metretes apiece.

There arose therefore a questioning on the part of John’s disciples with some Jews about purification.

and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing.

Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.

Then he poured water into the basin, and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him.

Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!”

Jesus said to him, “Someone who has bathed only needs to have his feet washed, but is completely clean. You are clean, but not all of you.”

Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth. Psalm 119:142

For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.

They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn’t enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.

A voice came to him, “Rise, Peter, kill and eat!”

But Peter said, “Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.”

A voice came to him again the second time, “What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean.”

This was done three times, and immediately the vessel was received up into heaven.

He said to them, “You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn’t call any man unholy or unclean.

But I said, ‘Not so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.’

But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, ‘What God has cleansed, don’t you call unclean.’

He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.

but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.

that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”

Therefore do what we tell you. We have four men who have taken a vow.

Take them, and purify yourself with them, and pay their expenses for them, that they may shave their heads. Then all will know that there is no truth in the things that they have been informed about you, but that you yourself also walk keeping the law.

But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written our decision that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from food offered to idols, from blood, from strangled things, and from sexual immorality.”

Then Paul took the men, and the next day, purified himself and went with them into the temple, declaring the fulfillment of the days of purification, until the offering was offered for every one of them.

amid which certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, not with a mob, nor with turmoil.

For he who has died has been freed from sin.

If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.

This is my covenant with them, when I will take away their sins.” Isaiah 59:20-21; 27:9; Jeremiah 31:33-34

I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

If any man’s work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.

Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.

Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.

For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn’t be judged.

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

in pureness, in knowledge, in perseverance, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,