2 Corinthians 7:1 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹ Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ 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

¹ 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)

¹ 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

¹ 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

¹ 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.

2 Corinthians 7:1 Cross References

1 Thessalonians 4:7

For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Proverbs 8:13

The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, And the froward mouth, do I hate.

James 4:8

Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded.

Psalm 51:10

Create in me a clean heart, O God; And renew a right spirit within me.

1 John 3:3

And every one that hath this hope set on him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

1 Thessalonians 5:23

And the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved entire, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 1:22

Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart fervently:

Isaiah 55:7

let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

1 Corinthians 6:20

for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body.

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 his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

Hebrews 4:1

Let us fear therefore, lest haply, a promise being left of entering into his rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it.

Proverbs 16:6

By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: And by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.

Matthew 5:48

Ye therefore shall be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Matthew 5:8

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

Psalm 119:9

Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed thereto according to thy word.

1 John 1:9

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Ephesians 2:3

among whom we also all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:--

Romans 5:20

And the law came in beside, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did abound more exceedingly:

Isaiah 1:16

Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil:

Proverbs 30:12

There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes; And yet are not washed from their filthiness.

1 Peter 5:10

And the God of all grace, who called you unto his eternal glory in Christ, after that ye have suffered a little while, shall himself perfect, stablish, strengthen you.

Hebrews 12:28

Wherefore, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace, whereby we may offer service well-pleasing to God with reverence and awe:

Hebrews 12:23

to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

1 Thessalonians 3:13

to the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

2 Corinthians 1:20

For how many soever be the promises of God, in him is the yea: wherefore also through him is the Amen, unto the glory of God through us.

Acts 9:31

So the church throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria had peace, being edified; and, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, was multiplied.

Matthew 12:33

Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by its fruit.

Jeremiah 13:27

I have seen thine abominations, even thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, on the hills in the field. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! thou wilt not be made clean; how long shall it yet be?

Jeremiah 4:14

O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thine evil thoughts lodge within thee?

Proverbs 20:9

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

Psalm 19:9

The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: The judgements of the LORD are true, and righteous altogether.

2 Chronicles 19:9

And he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye do in the fear of the LORD, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.

Ecclesiastes 11:10

Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for youth and the prime of life are vanity.

Hebrews 6:9

But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak:

1 Peter 1:15

but like as he which called you is holy, be ye yourselves also holy in all manner of living;

1 Peter 1:17

And if ye call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to each man's work, pass the time of your sojourning in fear:

Leviticus 13:58

And the garment, either the warp, or the woof, or whatsoever thing of skin it be, which thou shalt wash, if the plague be departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and shall be clean.