Wednesday, October 8, 2025

John 13:1-11, Create in Me a Clean Heart (2)

Today’s study of the adjective means you should note what aspects of our lives is to be pure.  A list of such items should not lead to increased self-effort but to consistent submission to Christ.  It is His desire to produce His pure life in us. 

katharos (adj): purity (in ritual sense)

·       Mat 5:8: Blessed are the pure in heart, For they shall see God.

·       Mat 23:26: first cleanse inside of cup/dish, that the outside may be clean also.

·       Mat 27:59: Joseph wrapped Jesus’ body in a clean linen cloth,

·       Luk 11:41: give alms; then indeed all things are clean to you.

·       Jhn 13:10ab: He who is bathed … is … clean; you are clean, but not all of you.”

·       Jhn 13:11: Jesus said to disciples, “You are not all clean.”

·       Jhn 15:3: You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.

·       Act 18:6: Paul shook garments, “I am clean. From now on I go to Gentiles.”

·       Act 20:26: Paul: “… I am innocent of the blood of all men.”

·       Rom 14:20: All things are pure, but it is evil for the man who eats with offense.

·       1Ti 1:5: purpose of the command is love from pure heart, good conscience, sincere faith,

·       1Ti 3:9: holding the mystery of the faith with a pure conscience.

·       2Ti 1:3: I thank God, whom I serve with a pure conscience

·       2Ti 2:22: Flee … pursue … with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

·       Tit 1:15abc: To the pure all things pure, to defiled & unbelieving nothing pure

·       Heb 10:22: let us draw near … having our bodies washed with pure water.

·       Jas 1:27: Pure, undefiled religion: to visit orphans, widows keep oneself unspotted from the world.

·       1Pe 1:22: having been purified, love one another fervently with a pure heart,

·       Rev 15:6: seven angels w/seven plagues, clothed in pure bright linen

·       Rev 19:8: bride in fine linen, clean and bright, the righteous acts of the saints.

·       Rev 19:14: heaven‘s armies in fine linen, white, clean, followed on white horses.

·       Rev 21:18,21: and the city & street was pure gold, like clear glass.

·       Rev 22:1: And he showed me a pure river of water of life.

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