He charged them, “This is how you shall act: in the fear of the Lord, in faithfulness, and with your whole heart;
2 Corinthians 7:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of flesh and of spirit, making holiness perfect in the fear of God. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition THEREFORE, SINCE these [great] promises are ours, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that contaminates and defiles body and spirit, and bring [our] consecration to completeness in the [reverential] fear of God. American Standard Version (1901) Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. Common English Bible My dear friends, since we have these promises, let’s cleanse ourselves from anything that contaminates our body or spirit so that we make our holiness complete in the fear of God. Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of the flesh and of the spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God. |
He charged them, “This is how you shall act: in the fear of the Lord, in faithfulness, and with your whole heart;
How can young people keep their way pure? By guarding it according to your word.
the fear of the Lord is pure, enduring forever; the ordinances of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me.
By loyalty and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the Lord one avoids evil.
There are those who are pure in their own eyes, yet are not cleansed of their filthiness.
The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.
Banish anxiety from your mind, and put away pain from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.
Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove your evil deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil;
let the wicked forsake their way and the unrighteous their thoughts; let them return to the Lord, that he may have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
I have seen your abominations, your adulteries and neighings, your shameless prostitutions on the hills of the countryside. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will it be before you are made clean?
O Jerusalem, wash your heart clean of wickedness so that you may be saved. How long shall your evil schemes lodge within you?
But the cloth, warp or woof, or anything of skin from which the disease disappears when you have washed it shall then be washed a second time, and it shall be clean.
“Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for the tree is known by its fruit.
Meanwhile the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace and was built up. Living in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers.
But law came in, so that the trespass might increase, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,
For in him every one of God’s promises is a “Yes.” For this reason it is through him that we say the “Amen,” to the glory of God.
All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh, doing the will of flesh and senses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like everyone else,
And may he so strengthen your hearts in holiness that you may be blameless before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
May the God of peace himself sanctify you entirely, and may your spirit and soul and body be kept sound and blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,
Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable worship with reverence and awe,
Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest is still open, let us take care that none of you should seem to have failed to reach it.
Even though we speak in this way, beloved, we are confident of better things in your case, things that belong to salvation.
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Instead, as he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in all your conduct,
If you invoke as Father the one who judges impartially according to each person’s work, live in fear during the time of your exile.
Now that you have purified your souls by your obedience to the truth so that you have genuine mutual affection, love one another deeply from the heart.
Beloved, I urge you as aliens and exiles to abstain from the desires of the flesh that wage war against the soul.
And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, support, strengthen, and establish you.
but if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
If we confess our sins, he who is faithful and just will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
And all who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.