2 Corinthians 7:1

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

So then, dear friends, since we have these promises,  let us cleanse ourselves from every impurity of the flesh and spirit,  bringing holiness to completion  in the fear of God.

Cross References

1 Thessalonians 4:7

For God has not called us to impurity  but to live in holiness.

1 Peter 2:11

Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and exiles  to abstain  from sinful  desires that wage war against the soul.

Proverbs 8:13

To fear the Lord is to hate evil. I hate arrogant pride, evil conduct, and perverse speech.

James 4:8

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

1 John 3:3

And everyone who has this hope  in him purifies himself just as he is pure.

1 Thessalonians 5:23

Now may the God of peace  himself sanctify you completely. And may your whole spirit,  soul, and body be kept sound and blameless at the coming  of our Lord  Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 1:22

Since you have purified yourselves by your obedience to the truth,  so that you show sincere brotherly love for each other,  from a pure  heart love one another constantly,  ,

Isaiah 55:7

Let the wicked one abandon his way and the sinful one his thoughts; let him return to the  Lord, so that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will freely forgive.

1 Corinthians 6:20

for you were bought  at a price. So glorify God with your body.

1 John 1:7

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.

Hebrews 4:1

Therefore, since the promise to enter his rest remains, let us beware  that none of you be found to have fallen short.

Proverbs 16:6

Iniquity is atoned for by loyalty and faithfulness, and one turns from evil by the fear of the  Lord.

Matthew 5:48

Be perfect,   therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Matthew 5:8

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

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

We too all previously lived among them in our fleshly  desires, carrying out the inclinations  of our flesh and thoughts, and we were by nature children under wrath  as the others were also.

Romans 5:20

The law came along to multiply the trespass.  But where sin multiplied, grace multiplied even more,

Isaiah 1:16

‘Wash yourselves. Cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from my sight. Stop doing evil.

Proverbs 30:12

There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes, yet is not washed from its filth.

1 Peter 5:10

The God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory  in Christ,  will himself restore, establish, strengthen, and support you after you have suffered a little while.

Hebrews 12:28

Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful. By it, we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,

Hebrews 12:23

to the assembly of the firstborn whose names have been written  in heaven, to a Judge, who is God of all, to the spirits of righteous people made perfect,

1 Thessalonians 3:13

May he make your hearts blameless  in holiness  before our God and Father at the coming  of our Lord  Jesus with all his saints. Amen.

2 Corinthians 1:20

For every one of God’s promises  is ‘Yes’ in him. Therefore, through him we also say ‘Amen’  to the glory of God.

Acts 9:31

So the church  throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace and was strengthened. Living in the fear of the Lord and encouraged by the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers.

Matthew 12:33

‘Either make the tree good and its fruit will be good, or make the tree bad   and its fruit will be bad; for a tree is known by its fruit.

Jeremiah 13:27

Your adulteries and your lustful neighing, your depraved prostitution on the hills, in the fields – I have seen your abhorrent acts. Woe to you, Jerusalem! You are unclean – for how long yet?

Jeremiah 4:14

Wash the evil from your heart,   Jerusalem, so that you will be delivered. How long will you harbour malicious thoughts?

Proverbs 20:9

Who can say, ‘I have kept my heart pure; I am cleansed from my sin’?

2 Chronicles 19:9

He commanded them, saying, ‘In the fear of the Lord, with integrity, and wholeheartedly, you are to do the following:

Ecclesiastes 11:10

Remove sorrow from your heart, and put away pain from your flesh, because youth and the prime of life are fleeting.

Hebrews 6:9

Even though we are speaking this way, dearly loved friends, in your case we are confident of things that are better and that pertain to salvation.

1 Peter 1:15

But as the one who called you  is holy,  you also are to be holy in all your conduct;

1 Peter 1:17

If you appeal to the Father who judges impartially  according to each one’s work,  you are to conduct yourselves in reverence  during your time living as strangers.

Leviticus 13:58

But if the contamination disappears from the fabric, the warp or weft, or any leather article, which have been washed, it is to be washed again, and it will be clean.