14 who gave Himself for us to purchase our freedom from all iniquity, and purify for Himself a people who should be specially His own, zealous for doing good works.
3 He brightly reflects God's glory and is the exact representation of His being, and upholds the universe by His all-powerful word. After securing man's purification from sin He took His seat at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
21 And, corresponding to that figure, the water of baptism now saves you –not the washing off of material defilement, but the craving of a good conscience after God– through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
8 Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and make your hearts pure, you who are half-hearted towards God.
20 »What comes out of a man,« He added, »that it is which makes him unclean.
21 For from within, out of men's hearts, their evil purposes proceed–fornication, theft, murder, adultery,
22 covetousness, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, reviling, pride, reckless folly:
23 all these wicked things come out from within and make a man unclean.«
25 Married men, love your wives, as Christ also loved the Church and gave Himself up to death for her;
26 in order to make her holy, cleansing her with the baptismal water by the word,
9 If we confess our sins, He is so faithful and just that He forgives us our sins and cleanses us from all unrighteousness.
16 And now why delay? Rise, get yourself baptized, and wash off your sins, calling upon His name.'
3 Already you are cleansed–through the teaching which I have given you.
14 how much more certainly shall the blood of Christ, who strengthened by the eternal Spirit offered Himself to God, free from blemish, purify your consciences from lifeless works for you to serve the ever-living God?
2 Dear friends, we are now God's children, but what we are to be in the future has not yet been fully revealed. We know that if Christ reappears we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is.
3 And every man who has this hope fixed on Him, purifies himself so as to be as pure as He is.
1 Having therefore these promises, beloved friends, let us purify ourselves from all defilement of body and of spirit, and secure perfect holiness through the fear of God.
7 But if we live in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, His Son, cleanses us from all sin.