cleanliness

¹⁶Wash, become clean, take away the evil of your intentions from my eyes. Cease to act perversely.

¹²Create a clean heart in me, O God. And renew an upright spirit within my inmost being.

⁹You will sprinkle me with hyssop, and I will be cleansed. You will wash me, and I will be made whiter than snow.

¹Therefore, having these promises, most beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of the flesh and of the spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God.

⁹If we confess our sins, then he is faithful and just, so as to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all iniquity.

⁸Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

²⁵And I will pour clean water over you, and you shall be cleansed from all your filth, and I will cleanse you from all your idols.

⁷But if we walk in the light, just as he also is in the light, then we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

¹²You shall have a place beyond the camp to which you may go for the necessities of nature, ¹³carrying a small shovel at your belt. And when you would sit down, you shall dig around, and then, with the soil that was dug up, you shall cover ¹⁴that from which you were relieved. For the Lord your God walks in the midst of your camp, in order to rescue you, and to deliver your enemies to you. And so, let your camp be holy, and let nothing filthy appear within it, lest he abandon you.

²⁶You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the dish, and then what is outside becomes clean.

²⁸You shall not cut your flesh for the dead, and you shall not make other figures or marks on yourself. I am the Lord.

⁸Concerning the rest, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is chaste, whatever is just, whatever is holy, whatever is worthy to be loved, whatever is of good repute, if there is any virtue, if there is any praiseworthy discipline: meditate on these.

¹⁷Therefore, he who knows that he ought to do a good thing, and does not do it, for him it is a sin.

²⁴Do not judge according to appearances, but instead judge a just judgment.”

⁴⁰But let everything be done respectfully and according to proper order.

²And when they had seen certain ones from his disciples eating bread with common hands, that is, with unwashed hands, they disparaged them. ³For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat without repeatedly washing their hands, holding to the tradition of the elders. ⁴And when returning from the market, unless they wash, they do not eat. And there are many other things which have been handed down to them to observe: the washings of cups, and pitchers, and bronze containers, and beds. ⁵And so the Pharisees and the scribes questioned him: “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but they eat bread with common hands?” ⁶But in response, he said to them: “So well did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites, just as it has been written: ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. ⁷And in vain do they worship me, teaching the doctrines and precepts of men.’