2 Corinthians 7:1

Because of these promises, believers should cleanse themselves from all defilement and pursue complete holiness out of reverence for God. God's promises motivate holy living.

Cross-references · 40

• 1 Th 4:7For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
• 1 Pet 2:11Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
• Jas 4:8Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
• Prov 8:13The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
• Ps 51:10Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
• 1 Jn 3:3And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
• Ezek 36:25–26Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
• 2 Pet 1:4–8Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
• 1 Th 5:23And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• 1 Pet 1:22Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
• Isa 55:7Let 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 Jn 1:7But 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 cleanseth us from all sin.
• 1 Cor 6:20For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
• 2 Cor 6:17–18Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
• Heb 4:1Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
• Prov 16:6By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.
• Luke 11:39–40And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.
• Matt 23:25–26Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
• Ezek 18:30–32Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
• Phil 3:12–15Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
• 1 Jn 1:9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
• Matt 5:8Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
• Matt 5:48Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
• Ps 119:9Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
• Rom 5:20Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
• Isa 1:16Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
• Eph 2:3Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
• Titus 2:11–14For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
• Prov 30:12There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
• 1 Pet 5:10But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
• Eph 4:12–13For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
• Jer 4:14O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
• Jer 13:27I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?
• Heb 12:23To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
• Prov 20:9Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
• Heb 12:28Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
• 1 Th 3:13To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.
• Acts 9:31Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.
• Ps 19:9The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.
• 2 Cor 1:20For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.

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