Biblical Concept: Cleanse

Findings

Leprosy: “cleanse the house”

Leprosy: “cleanse the house with the blood of the bird and with the running water”

³⁰ for it is on this day that atonement shall be made for you to cleanse you; you shall be clean from all

your sins before the LORD.

Day of Atonement, cleanse, your sins before the LORD.

²¹ The Levites, too, purified themselves from sin and washed their clothes; and Aaron presented them as

a wave offering before the LORD. Aaron also made atonement for them to cleanse them.

Psalm 51:2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, And cleanse me from my sin.

Jeremiah 33:8 'And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they have sinned against Me, and I

will pardon all their iniquities by which they have sinned against Me, and by which they

have transgressed against Me.

Ezekiel 36:25 "Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all

your filthiness and from all your idols. (The God of the Bible makes a strong distinction

between Himself and polytheistic arbitrary gods of pagan nations.)

“no longer defile themselves with their idols” … “will cleanse them”

Ezekiel 45:18 'Thus says the Lord God, "In the first month, on the first of the month, you shall take a

young bull without blemish and cleanse the sanctuary.

“cleanse the lepers”

Promises, cleanse, relationship.

Cleanse, fear, relationship.

Cleanse, defilement, flesh, spirit, holiness, fear, God.

Hebrews 9:14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself

without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Blood of Christ, without blemish, cleanse your conscience, serve the living God. (Cleansing is serious business.)

“Cleanse your hands, you sinners”

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.

Confess, cleanse, relationship.

Divine cleansing.

⁷ "He shall then sprinkle seven times the one who is to be cleansed from the leprosy, and shall pronounce

him clean, and shall let the live bird go free over the open field.

¹⁴ "The priest shall then take some of the blood of the guilt offering, and the priest shall put it on the lobe

of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his

right foot.

²⁸ "The priest shall then put some of the oil that is in his palm on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be

cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the place of the

blood of the guilt offering.

Proverbs 20:9 Who can say, "I have cleansed my heart, I am pure from my sin "?

Foods: "What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy."

Church, sanctify, cleansed, water, word.

Law: “all things are cleansed with blood” (Cleansing is serious business.)

2 Timothy 2:21 Therefore, if a man cleanses himself from these things, he will be a vessel for honor,

sanctified, useful to the Master, prepared for every good work.

“if a man cleanses himself from these things”

1 John 1:7 but 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.

Walk, light, fellowship, blood, Jesus, cleanses, sin. (Cleansing is serious business.)

Leviticus 14:2 "This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing. Now he shall be brought to

the priest,

Leviticus 15:13 'Now when the man with the discharge becomes cleansed from his discharge, then he

shall count off for himself seven days for his cleansing; he shall then wash his clothes and

bathe his body in running water and shall become clean.

“offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded”

“make an offering for your cleansing”

Gentiles: “cleansing their hearts by faith”

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Cleanse

^NAS Leviticus 14:49 "To cleanse the house then, he shall take two birds and cedar wood and a scarlet string and hyssop, (Leprosy: “cleanse the house”)

⁵² "He shall thus cleanse the house with the blood of the bird and with the running water, along with the live bird and with the cedar wood and with the hyssop and with the scarlet string. (Leprosy: “cleanse the house with the blood of the bird and with the running water”)

^NAS Leviticus 16:19 "And with his finger he shall sprinkle some of the blood on it seven times, and cleanse it, and from the impurities of the sons of Israel consecrate it.

³⁰ for it is on this day that atonement shall be made for you to cleanse you; you shall be clean from all your sins before the LORD. (All) (Day of Atonement, cleanse, your sins before the LORD) (The God of the Bible makes a strong distinction between Himself and polytheistic arbitrary god’s of pagan nations.)

^NAS Numbers 8:6 "Take the Levites from among the sons of Israel and cleanse them.

¹⁵ "Then after that the Levites may go in to serve the tent of meeting. But you shall cleanse them and present them as a wave offering;

²¹ The Levites, too, purified themselves from sin and washed their clothes; and Aaron presented them as a wave offering before the LORD. Aaron also made atonement for them to cleanse them. (All)

^NAS 2 Chronicles 29:15 And they assembled their brothers, consecrated themselves, and went in to cleanse the house of the LORD, according to the commandment of the king by the words of the LORD.

¹⁶ So the priests went in to the inner part of the house of the LORD to cleanse it, and every unclean thing which they found in the temple of the LORD they brought out to the court of the house of the LORD. Then the Levites received it to carry out to the Kidron valley.

^NAS Job 9:30 "If I should wash myself with snow And cleanse my hands with lye,

^NAS Psalm 51:2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, And cleanse me from my sin. (All)

^NAS Jeremiah 4:11 In that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, "A scorching wind from the bare heights in the wilderness in the direction of the daughter of My people-- not to winnow, and not to cleanse,

^NAS Jeremiah 33:8 'And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they have sinned against Me, and I will pardon all their iniquities by which they have sinned against Me, and by which they have transgressed against Me. (All)

^NAS Ezekiel 36:25 "Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. (All)

³³ 'Thus says the Lord God, "On the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places will be rebuilt.

^NAS Ezekiel 37:23 "And they will no longer defile themselves with their idols, or with their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions; but I will deliver them from all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. And they will be My people, and I will be their God. (“no longer defile themselves with their idols” … “will cleanse them”)

^NAS Ezekiel 39:12 "For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to cleanse the land.

¹⁴ "And they will set apart men who will constantly pass through the land, burying those who were passing through, even those left on the surface of the ground, in order to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will make a search.

¹⁶ "And even the name of the city will be Hamonah. So they will cleanse the land."'

^NAS Ezekiel 43:20 'And you shall take some of its blood, and put it on its four horns, and on the four corners of the ledge, and on the border round about; thus you shall cleanse it and make atonement for it.

²² 'And on the second day you shall offer a male goat without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they cleansed it with the bull.

^NAS Ezekiel 45:18 'Thus says the Lord God, "In the first month, on the first of the month, you shall take a young bull without blemish and cleanse the sanctuary. (All)

^NAS Matthew 10:8 "Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons; freely you received, freely give. (“cleanse the lepers”)

^NAS Mark 7:4 and when they come from the market place, they do not eat unless they cleanse themselves; and there are many other things which they have received in order to observe, such as the washing of cups and pitchers and copper pots.)

^NAS 2 Corinthians 7:1 Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. (Promises, cleanse, relationship.) (Cleanse, fear, relationship.) (Cleanse, defilement, flesh, spirit, holiness, fear, God.)

^NAS Hebrews 9:14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? (All) (Blood of Christ, without blemish, cleanse your conscience, serve the living God.)

(Hebrews 9:11-15 ¹¹ But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things to come, He entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation; ¹² and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. ¹³ For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh, ¹⁴ how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? ¹⁵ And for this reason He is the mediator of a new covenant, in order that since a death has taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were committed under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.)

^NAS 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. (“Cleanse your hands, you sinners”)

^NAS 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. (All) (Confess, cleanse, relationship.) (Divine cleansing.) (1 John 1:5 - 2:2 ⁵ And this is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. ⁶ If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth; ⁷ but 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. ⁸ If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us. ⁹ If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. ¹⁰ If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us. ^NAS 1 John 2:1 My little children, I am writing these things to you that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; ² and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.)

Cleansed

^NAS Leviticus 12:7 'Then he shall offer it before the LORD and make atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the flow of her blood. This is the law for her who bears a child, whether a male or a female.

^NAS Leviticus 14:4 then the priest shall give orders to take two live clean birds and cedar wood and a scarlet string and hyssop for the one who is to be cleansed.

⁷ "He shall then sprinkle seven times the one who is to be cleansed from the leprosy, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the live bird go free over the open field. (All)

⁸ "The one to be cleansed shall then wash his clothes and shave off all his hair, and bathe in water and be clean. Now afterward, he may enter the camp, but he shall stay outside his tent for seven days.

¹¹ and the priest who pronounces him clean shall present the man to be cleansed and the aforesaid before the LORD at the doorway of the tent of meeting.

¹⁴ "The priest shall then take some of the blood of the guilt offering, and the priest shall put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot. (All)

¹⁷ "And of the remaining oil which is in his palm, the priest shall put some on the right ear lobe of the one to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the blood of the guilt offering;

¹⁸ while the rest of the oil that is in the priest's palm, he shall put on the head of the one to be cleansed. So the priest shall make atonement on his behalf before the LORD.

¹⁹ "The priest shall next offer the sin offering and make atonement for the one to be cleansed from his uncleanness. Then afterward, he shall slaughter the burnt offering.

²⁵ "Next he shall slaughter the lamb of the guilt offering; and the priest is to take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.

²⁸ "The priest shall then put some of the oil that is in his palm on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the guilt offering. (All)

²⁹ "Moreover, the rest of the oil that is in the priest's palm he shall put on the head of the one to be cleansed, to make atonement on his behalf before the LORD.

³¹ "He shall offer what he can afford, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, together with the grain offering. So the priest shall make atonement before the LORD on behalf of the one to be cleansed.

^NAS Leviticus 15:13 'Now when the man with the discharge becomes cleansed from his discharge, then he shall count off for himself seven days for his cleansing; he shall then wash his clothes and bathe his body in running water and shall become clean.

^NAS Joshua 22:17 'Is not the iniquity of Peor enough for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day, although a plague came on the congregation of the LORD,

^NAS 2 Chronicles 29:18 Then they went in to King Hezekiah and said, "We have cleansed the whole house of the LORD, the altar of burnt offering with all of its utensils, and the table of showbread with all of its utensils.

^NAS Nehemiah 13:9 Then I gave an order and they cleansed the rooms; and I returned there the utensils of the house of God with the grain offerings and the frankincense.

^NAS Proverbs 20:9 Who can say, "I have cleansed my heart, I am pure from my sin "? (All)

^NAS Ezekiel 22:24 "Son of man, say to her, 'You are a land that is not cleansed or rained on in the day of indignation.'

^NAS Ezekiel 24:13 "In your filthiness is lewdness. Because I would have cleansed you, Yet you are not clean, You will not be cleansed from your filthiness again, Until I have spent My wrath on you.

^NAS Ezekiel 43:22 'And on the second day you shall offer a male goat without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they cleansed it with the bull.

^NAS Ezekiel 44:26 "And after he is cleansed, seven days shall elapse for him.

^NAS Matthew 8:3 And He stretched out His hand and touched him, saying, "I am willing; be cleansed." And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.

^NAS Matthew 11:5 the blind receive sight and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.

^NAS Mark 1:41 And moved with compassion, He stretched out His hand, and touched him, and said to him, "I am willing; be cleansed."

⁴² And immediately the leprosy left him and he was cleansed.

^NAS Luke 4:27 "And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian."

^NAS Luke 5:13 And He stretched out His hand, and touched him, saying, "I am willing; be cleansed." And immediately the leprosy left him.

^NAS Luke 7:22 And He answered and said to them, "Go and report to John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, the poor have the gospel preached to them.

^NAS Luke 17:14 And when He saw them, He said to them, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." And it came about that as they were going, they were cleansed.

¹⁷ And Jesus answered and said, "Were there not ten cleansed? But the nine-- where are they?

^NAS Acts 10:15 And again a voice came to him a second time, "What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy." (Foods: "What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy.")

^NAS Acts 11:9 "But a voice from heaven answered a second time, 'What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy.'

^NAS Ephesians 5:26 that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, (Church, sanctify, cleansed, water, word.)

^NAS Hebrews 9:22 And according to the Law, one may almost say, all things are cleansed with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. (Law: “all things are cleansed with blood”) (Hebrews 9:11-15 ¹¹ But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things to come, He entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation; ¹² and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. ¹³ For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh, ¹⁴ how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? ¹⁵ And for this reason He is the mediator of a new covenant, in order that since a death has taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were committed under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.) (Cleansing is serious business.)

²³ Therefore it was necessary for the copies of the things in the heavens to be cleansed with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. (Hebrews 9:11-15 ¹¹ But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things to come, He entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation; ¹² and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. ¹³ For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh, ¹⁴ how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? ¹⁵ And for this reason He is the mediator of a new covenant, in order that since a death has taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were committed under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.)

^NAS Hebrews 10:2 Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have had consciousness of sins? (^NAS Hebrews 10:1 For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never by the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near. ² Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have had consciousness of sins? ³ But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year by year. ⁴ For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.)

Cleanses

^NAS 2 Timothy 2:21 Therefore, if a man cleanses himself from these things, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, useful to the Master, prepared for every good work. (All) (“if a man cleanses himself from these things”) (See 2:16-19, 22-23.)

^NAS 1 John 1:7 but 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. (All) (Walk, light, fellowship, blood, Jesus, cleanses, sin.) (Cleansing is serious business.) (1 John 1:5 - 2:2 ⁵ And this is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. ⁶ If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth; ⁷ but 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. ⁸ If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us. ⁹ If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. ¹⁰ If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us. ^NAS 1 John 2:1 My little children, I am writing these things to you that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; ² and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.)

Cleansing

^NAS Leviticus 13:7 "But if the scab spreads farther on the skin, after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall appear again to the priest.

³⁵ "But if the scale spreads farther in the skin after his cleansing,

^NAS Leviticus 14:2 "This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing. Now he shall be brought to the priest, (All)

²³ "Then the eighth day he shall bring them for his cleansing to the priest, at the doorway of the tent of meeting, before the LORD.

³² "This is the law for him in whom there is an infection of leprosy, whose means are limited for his cleansing."

^NAS Leviticus 15:13 'Now when the man with the discharge becomes cleansed from his discharge, then he shall count off for himself seven days for his cleansing; he shall then wash his clothes and bathe his body in running water and shall become clean. (All)

^NAS Numbers 8:7 "And thus you shall do to them, for their cleansing: sprinkle purifying water on them, and let them use a razor over their whole body, and wash their clothes, and they shall be clean.

^NAS Ezekiel 16:4 "As for your birth, on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing; you were not rubbed with salt or even wrapped in cloths.

^NAS Ezekiel 43:23 'When you have finished cleansing it, you shall present a young bull without blemish and a ram without blemish from the flock.

^NAS Mark 1:44 and He said to him, "See that you say nothing to anyone; but go, show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, for a testimony to them." (“offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded”)

^NAS Luke 5:14 And He ordered him to tell no one, "But go and show yourself to the priest, and make an offering for your cleansing, just as Moses commanded, for a testimony to them." (“make an offering for your cleansing”)

^NAS Acts 15:9 and He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith. (Gentiles: “cleansing their hearts by faith”)

^NAS Hebrews 9:13 For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh, (Hebrews 9:11-15 ¹¹ But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things to come, He entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation; ¹² and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. ¹³ For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh, ¹⁴ how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? ¹⁵ And for this reason He is the mediator of a new covenant, in order that since a death has taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were committed under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.)

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