What Is Purity?
Purity is the state of being clean and free from sin. In the Bible, it is often used as a metaphor for being holy and righteous. It can also refer to physical cleanliness and hygiene. In many cases, purity is related to morality and ethics, as in the idea of being pure of heart or mind.
When applied to people or things, purity usually refers to a lack of contamination or adulteration. For example, water that has been purified is clean and free of impurities. Similarly, a person who is considered pure may be seen as innocent or virtuous.
In some cases, purity can also be seen as a positive quality. For example, someone who is described as “pure of heart” may be seen as honest and good. Likewise, a thing that is considered pure may be seen as valuable or perfect.
Purity can also refer to the state of being clean or free from impurities. In many cases, purity is related to hygiene and health. For example, water that has been purified is clean and free of impurities, while food that has been purified is free of contaminants.
What Does Bible Say About Purity?
Purity is often thought of as a state of being clean or free from impurities. In the Bible, purity has a deeper meaning. It is not just about being physically clean, but also about being morally and spiritually pure.
The idea of purity is closely related to holiness. To be holy means to be set apart from the world and dedicated to God. Purity is one way of living out our holiness. It is a choice to avoid anything that would pollute our minds and bodies or damage our relationship with God.
Purity is important because it is a reflection of our relationship with God. When we are pure, we are closer to Him and His holiness. Purity is also an expression of our love for God. It shows that we are willing to obey His commands and follow His ways
Purity is not just about avoiding bad things; it is also about pursuing good things. The Bible calls us to pursue righteousness, truth, and love (1 Timothy 6:11). When we do these things, we are living in a way that is pleasing to God and helpful to others.
Purity is not easy, but it is worth it. When we are pure, we are living in a way that honors God and brings blessing to our lives.
The best way to achieve purity is through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. He died on the cross for our sins and offers us forgiveness and new life. When we receive Him into our hearts, He cleanses us from all unrighteousness. As we grow in our faith, we become more like Him and our desire for purity increases.
Bible Verses About Purity
1. Hebrews 9:14
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
2. Psalm 51:6
Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
3. Deuteronomy 17:7
The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put the evil away from among you.
4. Psalm 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
5. Matthew 28:3
His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:
6. Psalm 18:26
With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.
7. Titus 1:15
Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
8. James 4:8
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
9. Psalm 73:1
{A Psalm of Asaph.} Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.
10. Hebrews 13:4
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
11. 2 Corinthians 11:2
For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
12. 1 Thessalonians 4:3
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
13. Leviticus 18:30
Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.
14. Daniel 7:9
I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.
15. 1 John 1:5
This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
16. Proverbs 20:9
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
17. 1 Peter 5:9
Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
18. Titus 2:5
To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
19. 1 Corinthians 5:13
But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
20. Mark 9:3
And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them.
21. Mark 1:4
John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.
22. Judges 20:13
Now therefore deliver us the men, the children of Belial, which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel:
23. Matthew 17:2
And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.
24. Habakkuk 1:13
Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?
25. 1 John 3:3
And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
26. John 13:10
Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all.
27. 2 Peter 3:14
Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
28. Job 15:14
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
29. James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
30. Isaiah 1:18
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
31. Hebrews 7:26
For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
32. Ezekiel 36:25
Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
33. Ezekiel 24:13
In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.
34. Job 4:17
Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
35. Job 25:4
How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
36. 1 John 1:7
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
37. John 15:3
Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
38. Colossians 3:5
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
39. Proverbs 30:12
There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
40. Job 14:4
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
41. Isaiah 6:6
Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
42. Zechariah 13:1
In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.
43. Zephaniah 3:9
For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.
44. Leviticus 18:28
That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.
45. Hosea 8:5
Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?
46. Hebrews 12:24
And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
47. Psalm 51:7
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
48. Deuteronomy 13:5
And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.
49. Job 31:1
I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
50. Matthew 5:8
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
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