2 Corinthians 7:1

Modern English Version

Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 19:9

And he commanded them, “Thus you shall do in the fear of the Lord, in honesty, and with a complete heart.

Psalm 119:9

How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to Your word.

Psalm 19:9

the fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever; the decrees of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

Psalm 51:10

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

Proverbs 16:6

By mercy and truth iniquity is purged, and by the fear of the Lord men depart from evil.

Proverbs 20:9

Who can say, “I have made my heart pure, I am cleansed from my sin”?

Proverbs 30:12

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

Proverbs 8:13

The fear of the Lord is to hate evil; pride and arrogance and the evil way and perverse speech do I hate.

Ecclesiastes 11:10

Remove anxiety from your heart, and put away distress from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

Isaiah 1:16

Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil from your deeds, from before My eyes. Cease to do evil,

Isaiah 55:7

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to the Lord, and He will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.

Jeremiah 13:27

I have seen your adulteries and your lustful neighings, the lewdness of your harlotry, and your abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will you remain unclean?

Jeremiah 4:14

O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?

Leviticus 13:58

The garment that you have washed, either in the warp or woof, or anything of leather, if the disease is gone from it, then it shall be washed a second time and shall be clean.

Matthew 12:33

“Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree corrupt and its fruit corrupt. For the tree is known by its fruit.

Matthew 5:48

Therefore be complete, even as your Father who is in heaven is complete.

Matthew 5:8

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

Acts 9:31

Then the churches throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and were built up. And walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, they were multiplied.

Romans 5:20

But the law entered, so that sin might increase, but where sin increased, grace abounded much more,

1 Corinthians 6:20

You were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

2 Corinthians 1:20

For all the promises of God in Him are “Yes,” and in Him “Amen,” to the glory of God through us.

Ephesians 2:3

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

1 Thessalonians 3:13

To this end may He establish your hearts to be blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.

1 Thessalonians 4:7

For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.

1 Thessalonians 5:23

May the very God of peace sanctify you completely. And I pray to God that your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Hebrews 12:23

to the general assembly and church of the firstborn, who are enrolled in heaven; to God, the Judge of all; and to the spirits of the righteous ones made complete;

Hebrews 12:28

Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be moved, let us be gracious, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear.

Hebrews 4:1

Therefore, since the promise of entering His rest remains, let us fear lest any of you should seem to come short of it.

Hebrews 6:9

But though we speak in this manner, we are persuaded of better things for you, things that accompany salvation,

James 4:8

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

1 Peter 1:15

But as He who has called you is holy, so be holy in all your conduct,

1 Peter 1:17

And if you address as Father the One who impartially judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your sojourning.

1 Peter 1:22

Since your souls have been purified by obedience to the truth through the Spirit unto a genuine brotherly love, love one another deeply with a pure heart,

1 Peter 2:11

Dearly beloved, I implore you as aliens and refugees, abstain from fleshly lusts, which wage war against the soul.

1 Peter 5:10

But after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called us to His eternal glory through Christ Jesus, will restore, support, strengthen, and establish you.

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 cleanses us from all sin.

1 John 1:9

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

1 John 3:3

Everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.