Topic study
Purity in the Bible
Chastity, a clean heart and fleeing immorality.
293 King James verses match this subject. The chapters below hold the heaviest concentration of them, so you can read each passage where it actually sits.
Chapters to read
Matched on the words themselves in the King James text. Where a word is also a name, it can point to more than one person or place, so read the chapter to see which.
And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.
And he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round about.
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about.
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
Seeing 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:
Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
And they made upon the breastplate chains at the ends, of wreathen work of pure gold.
And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt make unto it a crown of gold round about.
Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people:
Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.
And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.
Key verses
- Psalms 24:4
He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
- Proverbs 20:9
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
- 2 Timothy 2:22
Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
- Titus 1:15
Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
- Daniel 1:8
But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.
- Hebrews 10:22
Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
- Numbers 5:28
And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.
- Job 11:4
For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.
- Psalms 19:8
The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.
- Psalms 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
- Psalms 73:1
A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.
- Psalms 78:18
And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
- Psalms 81:12
So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
- Proverbs 6:25
Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
- Proverbs 22:11
He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.
- Matthew 5:8
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
- Matthew 5:28
But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
- Matthew 15:18
But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
- Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
- Mark 7:21
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,