Bible Verses About Cleansing the Body
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for cleansing the body, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,229 votes, led by 1 John 1:9. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Cleansing the Body
1 John 1:9115 votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Psalms 51:10114 votes
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
Psalms 51:779 votes
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
1 Corinthians 3:1676 votes
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
Proverbs 6:16-1968 votes
These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
2 Corinthians 7:166 votes
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.
1 Thessalonians 4:3-553 votes
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
Titus 3:545 votes
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
Romans 12:242 votes
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Ephesians 5:2639 votes
That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
1 Corinthians 6:19-2037 votes
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
1 Peter 1:1337 votes
Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
Ezekiel 36:2532 votes
Then 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.
Proverbs 3:529 votes
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
John 3:1629 votes
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Psalms 23:1-628 votes
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
Jeremiah 33:824 votes
And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me.
1 Corinthians 6:1823 votes
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
John 1:1420 votes
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
1 Thessalonians 5:2220 votes
Abstain from all appearance of evil.
1 Corinthians 6:2018 votes
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
Hebrews 11:116 votes
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Genesis 3:1915 votes
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Ezekiel 18:415 votes
Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Hebrews 13:415 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
What does the Bible say about cleansing the body?
Readers most often cite 1 John 1:9 on the subject of cleansing the body. Across 1,229 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Psalms 51:10, Psalms 51:7, 1 Corinthians 3:16. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.