2 Corinthians 7:1

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, and make holiness perfect in the fear of God.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 19:9

And he charged them: “Thus you shall do in the fear of the Lord, in faithfulness, and with your whole heart:

Psalm 119:9

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

Psalm 19:9

the fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever; the ordinances of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether.

Psalm 51:10

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

Proverbs 16:6

By loyalty and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the Lord a man avoids evil.

Proverbs 20:9

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

Proverbs 30:12

There are those who are pure in their own eyes but are not cleansed of their filth.

Proverbs 8:13

The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.

Ecclesiastes 11:10

Remove vexation from your mind, and put away pain from your body; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

Isaiah 1:16

Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil,

Isaiah 55:7

let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Jeremiah 13:27

I have seen your abominations, your adulteries and neighings, your lewd harlotries, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will it be before you are made clean?”

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

But the garment, warp or woof, or anything of skin from which the disease departs when you have washed it, shall then be washed a second time, and be clean.”

Matthew 12:33

“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.

Matthew 5:48

You, therefore, must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Matthew 5:8

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

Acts 9:31

So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was built up; and walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit it was multiplied.

Romans 5:20

Law came in, to increase the trespass; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,

1 Corinthians 6:20

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

2 Corinthians 1:20

For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why we utter the Amen through him, to the glory of God.

Ephesians 2:3

Among these we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, following the desires of body and mind, and so we were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

1 Thessalonians 3:13

so that he may establish your hearts unblamable in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

1 Thessalonians 4:7

For God has not called us for uncleanness, but in holiness.

1 Thessalonians 5:23

May the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body be kept sound and blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Hebrews 12:23

and to the assembly of the first-born who are enrolled in heaven, and to a judge who is God of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

Hebrews 12:28

Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe;

Hebrews 4:1

Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest remains, let us fear lest any of you be judged to have failed to reach it.

Hebrews 6:9

Though we speak thus, yet in your case, beloved, we feel sure of better things that belong to 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 men of double mind.

1 Peter 1:15

but as he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in all your conduct;

1 Peter 1:17

And if you invoke as Father him who judges each one impartially according to his deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile.

1 Peter 1:22

Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere love of the brethren, love one another earnestly from the heart.

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh that wage war against your soul.

1 Peter 5:10

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

1 John 1:7

but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

1 John 1:9

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

1 John 3:3

And every one who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.