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22 Bible Verses About Cleanliness

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Summary

  • Leviticus 11:47 states the aim of the food laws: “to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean.”
  • Deuteronomy 23:12-14 requires waste to be buried outside the camp because the Lord walks in the midst of it.
  • Psalm 24:4 and James 4:8 both pair clean hands with a pure heart.
  • In Mark 7 Jesus says what defiles a person comes from the heart, and Mark adds that he declared all foods clean.
  • “Cleanliness is next to godliness” is not a Bible verse; John Wesley quoted it in his sermon “On Dress.”

In the Bible, clean and unclean describe whether a person may come near God. The law applies them to food, bodily discharges and contact with the dead (Leviticus 11:44, Leviticus 15:31, Numbers 19:11-12). The psalms and prophets use washing for sin (Psalm 51:2, Isaiah 1:16), and Jesus says defilement comes out of the heart (Mark 7:15, 21). Bodily washing is part of the picture too. The people at Sinai wash their garments before God comes down on the mountain (Exodus…

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Scripture quotations are from the English Standard Version.

John Wesley. Sermon 88, “On Dress,” where he writes that no text of Scripture “condemns neatness of apparel” and quotes “Cleanliness is, indeed, next to godliness.” wesley.nnu.edu

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