So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments.
When Moses came down from the mountain to the people, he consecrated them, and they washed their clothes.
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow. They must wash their clothes
Cast away from yourselves all the transgressions you have committed, and fashion for yourselves a new heart and a new sp
Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-mind
For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by d
Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander.
I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your
“Now, therefore,” he said, “get rid of the foreign gods among you and incline your hearts to the LORD, the God of Israel
let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilt
But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whethe
They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.
Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit,
Then Samuel said to all the house of Israel, “If you are returning to the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the f
Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.
Now Rachel had taken Laban’s household idols, put them in the saddlebag of her camel, and was sitting on them. And Laban
You shall have no other gods before Me.
You shall have no other gods before Me.
And I said to them: ‘Each of you must throw away the abominations before his eyes, and you must not defile yourselves wi
Anyone who touches his bed must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
But if he does not wash his clothes and bathe himself, then he shall bear his iniquity.”
You must burn up the images of their gods; do not covet the silver and gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, o
but a curse if you disobey the commandments of the LORD your God and turn aside from the path I command you today by fol
“Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs,
Pay close attention to everything I have said to you. You must not invoke the names of other gods; they must not be hear
Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you.
On the seventh day you are to wash your clothes, and you will be clean. After that you may enter the camp.”
Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge
As they drank the wine, they praised their gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.
What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?
And Joshua said to all the people, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Long ago your fathers, including Te
Can man make gods for himself? Such are not gods!”
Are not the Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not have washed in
So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and He could no longer bear the misery of Israel.
And when the days of feasting were over, Job would send for his children to purify them, rising early in the morning to
For all the gods of the nations are idols, but it is the LORD who made the heavens.
While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard ab
Your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution on the hills and in the fields—I have seen your detes
Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.
Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
All the men who went out of the city gate listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male of the city was circumci
Wash me clean of my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.
Then Elisha sent him a messenger, who said, “Go and wash yourself seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be rest
I will ponder the way that is blameless—when will You come to me? I will walk in my house with integrity of heart.
“Look,” said Naomi, “your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and her gods; follow her back home.”
If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, He will turn and bring disaster on you and consume you, even after He ha
Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing; come out from it, purify yourselves, you who carry the vessel
When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the region, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.
Jesus told him, “Whoever has already bathed needs only to wash his feet, and he will be completely clean. And you are cl
Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!
And who is like Your people Israel—the one nation on earth whom God went out to redeem as a people for Himself and to ma