Bible verses about "cleanliness" | BBE

² And had seen that some of his disciples took their bread with unclean, that is, unwashed, hands. ³ Now the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not take food without washing their hands with care, keeping the old rule which has been handed down to them: ⁴ And when they come from the market-place, they take no food till their hands are washed; and a number of other orders there are, which have been handed down to them to keep--washings of cups and pots and brass vessels. ⁵ And the Pharisees and the scribes put the question to him, Why do your disciples not keep the rules of the fathers, but take their bread with unwashed hands? ⁶ And he said, Well did Isaiah say of you, you false ones: These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me. ⁷ But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men. ⁸ For, turning away from the law of God, you keep the rules of men. ⁹ And he said to them, Truly you put on one side the law of God, so that you may keep the rules which have been handed down to you. ¹⁰ For Moses said, Give honour to your father and mother, and, He who says evil of father or mother, let him have the punishment of death: ¹¹ But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is Corban, that is to say, Given to God, ¹² You no longer let him do anything for his father or his mother; ¹³ Making the word of God of no effect by your rule, which you have given: and a number of other such things you do. ¹⁴ And turning to the people again, he said to them, Give ear to me all of you, and let my words be clear to you: ¹⁵ There is nothing outside the man which, going into him, is able to make him unclean: but the things which come out of the man are those which make the man unclean. ¹⁶ (OMITTED TEXT) ¹⁷ And when he had gone into the house away from all the people, his disciples put questions to him about the saying. ¹⁸ And he said to them, Have even you so little wisdom? Do you not see that whatever goes into a man from outside is not able to make him unclean, ¹⁹ Because it goes not into the heart but into the stomach, and goes out with the waste? He said this, making all food clean. ²⁰ And he said, That which comes out of the man, that makes the man unclean. ²¹ Because from inside, from the heart of men, come evil thoughts and unclean pleasures, ²² The taking of goods and of life, broken faith between husband and wife, the desire of wealth, wrongdoing, deceit, sins of the flesh, an evil eye, angry words, pride, foolish acts: ²³ All these evil things come from inside, and make the man unclean. ²⁴ Let not your decisions be based on what you see, but on righteousness.

¹⁷ The man who has knowledge of how to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.

²⁸ You may not make cuts in your flesh in respect for the dead, or have marks printed on your bodies: I am the Lord.

²⁵ And I will put clean water on you so that you may be clean: from all your unclean ways and from all your images I will make you clean.

⁸ For the rest, my brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things have honour, whatever things are upright, whatever things are holy, whatever things are beautiful, whatever things are of value, if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, give thought to these things.

¹² Let there be a place outside the tent-circle to which you may go; ¹³ And have among your arms a spade; and when you have been to that place, let that which comes from you be covered up with earth: ¹⁴ For the Lord your God is walking among your tents, to keep you safe and to give up into your hands those who are fighting against you; then let your tents be holy, so that he may see no unclean thing among you, and be turned away from you.

⁸ Happy are the clean in heart: for they will see God.

²⁶ You blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and of the plate, so that the outside may become equally clean.

¹ Because God, then, will give us such rewards, dear brothers, let us make ourselves clean from all evil of flesh and spirit, and become completely holy in the fear of God.

⁷ But if we are walking in the light, as he is in the light, we are all united with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son makes us clean from all sin.

⁹ If we say openly that we have done wrong, he is upright and true to his word, giving us forgiveness of sins and making us clean from all evil.

⁷ Make me free from sin with hyssop: let me be washed whiter than snow.

¹⁰ Make a clean heart in me, O God; give me a right spirit again.

¹⁶ Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning;