What does the Bible say about clean house?
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The Bible commends a clean, well-ordered home as part of faithful stewardship, while teaching that inward holiness matters even more than outward tidiness. Proverbs 24:3 and Proverbs 14:1 connect a wisely built household with wisdom and diligence, and Proverbs 31:27 praises watchful care for the affairs of the home. Titus 2:5 and 1 Timothy 3:5 likewise show that household responsibilities belong to godly character and service. Yet Matthew 12:43-45 and Luke 11:25 warn that a merely swept life, left spiritually empty, remains vulnerable; God must renew the heart. Therefore believers work heartily in ordinary tasks, as Colossians 3:23 teaches, while praying with David, “Create in me a clean heart” (Psalms 51:10).
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- 1 Timothy 3:5
(but if a man doesn't know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the assembly of God?)
- 1 Corinthians 14:40
Let all things be done decently and in order.
- Matthew 12:43-45
[43] But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of the man, passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and doesn't find it. [44] Then he says, 'I will return into my house from which I came out,' and when he has come back, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. [45] Then he goes, and takes with himself seven other spirits more evil than he is, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first. Even so will it be also to this evil generation."
- Colossians 3:23
And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,
- Proverbs 24:3
Through wisdom a house is built; By understanding it is established;
- Luke 11:25
When he returns, he finds it swept and put in order.
- Titus 2:5
to be sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God's word may not be blasphemed.
- Psalms 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.
- Proverbs 31:27
She looks well to the ways of her household, And doesn't eat the bread of idleness.
- Proverbs 14:1
Every wise woman builds her house, But the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.
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