What does the Bible say about clean body?
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The Bible teaches that our bodies belong to God and should be kept in holiness, not as a means of earning salvation but as the grateful fruit of Christ’s cleansing grace. Believers are temples of the Holy Spirit, bought with a price, and therefore called to glorify God in their bodies (1 Corinthians 6:19; 1 Corinthians 3:16). God commands His people to flee sexual immorality and pursue purity in body and spirit (1 Corinthians 6:18; 2 Corinthians 7:1; 1 Thessalonians 4:3-4). Yet true cleansing begins with God’s mercy: He washes sinners, makes them clean through Christ’s word, and calls them to live accordingly (Psalms 51:7; John 15:3).
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- 1 Corinthians 6:19
Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,
- Psalms 51:7
Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
- 2 Corinthians 7:1
Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
- 1 Corinthians 3:16
Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you?
- 1 Thessalonians 4:3-4
[3] For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, [4] that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,
- Revelation 21:27
There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.
- 1 Corinthians 6:18
Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin that a man does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
- 2 Timothy 2:15
Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn't need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.
- John 15:3
You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
- 1 Peter 2:24
who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
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