Purity

PURITY

Word Definitions:

Greek hagnos = not contaminated, pure from defilement

hagnizo = to make clean

hagiason = to be set apart, to be separated, to be pure and holy, to be consecrated

katharos = as being cleansed, pure, clean; purged

eilikrines = signifies unalloyed, unmixed substances, untainted, not polluted, to sift through a sieve, tested by the sunlight

adolon = pure, sincere, unadulterated, unmixed with anything else amiantos = pure, undefiled, unstained by sin, faultless, constant, unswerving, faithful, devoted, reliable, constant

hagnotes = the state of being pure, purity, innocence, sincerity, cleanliness, from from dirt and pollution

hagneia = the state of being pure in spirit, manner or act

hagnen = to be pure from all fault; to be clean and holy; free from all defilement

akeraioi = harmless, pure, innocent, clean, unmixed

aphtharton = Incorruptible, immortal, imperishable, pure, that can never perish; it does not age, deteriorate or die; it does not have the seed of corruption with in

Key Scriptures:

Matthew 5:8 “Blessed are the pure ( katharos ) in heart: for they shall see God.”
John 17:17 “Sanctify ( hagiason )them through thy truth: thy word is truth.”
Acts 20:26 “Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure ( katharos )from the blood of all men.”
Romans 14:20 “For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure ( katharos ); but it is evil for that man who eateth with offense. It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor anything whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.”
II Corinthians 6:6 “By pureness ( hagnotes ), by knowledge, by long suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left...”
Galatians 6:8-10 “For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.”
Philippians 1:9 “And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; that ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere ( elikrines )and with offense till the day of Christ; being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.”
Philippians 2:15 “That ye may be blameless and harmless ( akeraioi ), the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;”
Philippians 4:8 “Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, ( hagnos ) whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.”
I Timothy 1:5 “Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure ( katharos ) heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:”
I Timothy 3:9 “Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure ( katharos ) conscience.”
I Timothy 5:2 “The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity ( hagneia ).”
I Timothy 5:1-2 “Rebuke not an elder, but entreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren; the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity ( hagnia ).”
I Timothy 5:22 “Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure. ( hagnos )”
II Timothy 1:3 “I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure (katharos) conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day;”
II Timothy 2:22 “Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure ( katharos )heart.”
I Peter 1:4-5 “To an inheritance incorruptible ( aphtharton ), and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.”
I Peter 1:22-23 “Seeing ye have purified ( katharos ) your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure ( hagnizo )heart fervently; Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.”
I Peter 2:2 “As newborn babes, desire the sincere ( adolon )milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:”
I Peter 3:2 “While they behold your chaste ( hagnen )conversation coupled with fear.”
II Peter 3:1 “This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure ( elikrines ) minds by way of remembrance;”
I John 3:3 “And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth ( hagnos ) himself, even as He is pure ( hagnos ).”
Titus 1:15-16 “Unto the pure ( katharos )all things are pure ( katharos ): but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled. They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every goo work reprobate.”
Hebrews 7:26 “For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled ( amiantos ), separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;”
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 ( katharos ) water.”
Hebrews 13:4 “Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled ( amiantos ): but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.”
James 1:27 “Pure ( katharos ) religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.”
James 3:17 “But the wisdom that is from above is first pure ( hagnos ), then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.”
I John 3:3 “And every man that hath this hope in him, purifieth ( hagnos ) himself, even as He is pure. ( hagnos )”
Revelation 15:6 “And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure ( katharos ) and white linen, and having their breasts girded with golden girdles.”
Revelations 21:18 “And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure ( katharos ) gold, like unto clear glass.”
Revelations 22:1 “And he shewed me a pure ( katharos )river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.”

Other Scriptures:

1. Matthew 5:28:30 “But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.”

2. Matthew 15:19-20 “For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies; these are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.”

4. Romans 13:13-14 “Let us walk honestly, as in the day: not in rioting and drunkenness, not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof.”

5. I Corinthians 6:9-11 “Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.”

6. I Corinthians 6:18-20 “Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.”

7. I Corinthians 10:8 “Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.”

8. Ephesians 5:1-4 “Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children: and walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given Himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savor. But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.”

9. Galatians 5:16-25 “This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.”

10. I Thessalonians 4:2-8 “For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus. For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: that every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor; not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God: that no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: be cause that the Lord is the average of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified. For God hath not call us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness. He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God who hath also given unto us His Holy Spirit.”

11. Titus 2:11-12 “For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;”

12. I Peter 1:14-16 “As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: but as He which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversations; because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.”