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100 Bible Verses about Clean House

1 Timothy 3:5 ESV / 387 helpful votes

For if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God's church?

1 Corinthians 14:40 ESV / 371 helpful votes

But all things should be done decently and in order.

Matthew 12:43-45 ESV / 310 helpful votes

“When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, but finds none. Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when it comes, it finds the house empty, swept, and put in order. Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and dwell there, and the last state of that person is worse than the first. So also will it be with this evil generation.”

Colossians 3:23 ESV / 243 helpful votes

Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

Proverbs 24:3 ESV / 204 helpful votes

By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established;

Luke 11:25 ESV / 185 helpful votes

And when it comes, it finds the house swept and put in order.

Titus 2:5 ESV / 179 helpful votes

To be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

Psalm 51:10 ESV / 172 helpful votes

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

Proverbs 14:1 ESV / 160 helpful votes

The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down.

Matthew 12:44 ESV / 158 helpful votes

Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when it comes, it finds the house empty, swept, and put in order.

Proverbs 31:27 ESV / 158 helpful votes

She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 129 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Ephesians 5:15-16 ESV / 117 helpful votes

Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 110 helpful votes

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Psalm 51:7 ESV / 109 helpful votes

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Matthew 24:46 ESV / 107 helpful votes

Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes.

Luke 10:38-42 ESV / 103 helpful votes

Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a village. And a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to his teaching. But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she went up to him and said, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me.” But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.”

Proverbs 20:9 ESV / 90 helpful votes

Who can say, “I have made my heart pure; I am clean from my sin”?

Ezekiel 36:25 ESV / 83 helpful votes

I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you.

Philippians 2:14 ESV / 82 helpful votes

Do all things without grumbling or disputing,

Matthew 23:26 ESV / 80 helpful votes

You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside also may be clean.

Romans 14:14 ESV / 79 helpful votes

I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself, but it is unclean for anyone who thinks it unclean.

Ephesians 4:31-32 ESV / 78 helpful votes

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 76 helpful votes

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

James 4:8 ESV / 67 helpful votes

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Proverbs 28:13 ESV / 67 helpful votes

Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 66 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Deuteronomy 23:14 ESV / 65 helpful votes

Because the Lord your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you and to give up your enemies before you, therefore your camp must be holy, so that he may not see anything indecent among you and turn away from you.

Acts 19:18-19 ESV / 64 helpful votes

Also many of those who were now believers came, confessing and divulging their practices. And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted the value of them and found it came to fifty thousand pieces of silver.

Psalm 24:3-4 ESV / 63 helpful votes

Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord? And who shall stand in his holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully.

Deuteronomy 7:25-26 ESV / 63 helpful votes

The carved images of their gods you shall burn with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, lest you be ensnared by it, for it is an abomination to the Lord your God. And you shall not bring an abominable thing into your house and become devoted to destruction like it. You shall utterly detest and abhor it, for it is devoted to destruction.

Psalm 81:11-12 ESV / 62 helpful votes

“But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would not submit to me. So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.

1 Corinthians 13:12 ESV / 60 helpful votes

For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 60 helpful votes

The words of King Lemuel. An oracle that his mother taught him: What are you doing, my son? What are you doing, son of my womb? What are you doing, son of my vows? Do not give your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings. It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink, lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted. ...

Deuteronomy 16:16 ESV / 59 helpful votes

“Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord your God at the place that he will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Booths. They shall not appear before the Lord empty-handed.

Job 33:9 ESV / 58 helpful votes

You say, ‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, and there is no iniquity in me.

1 Thessalonians 5:14 ESV / 57 helpful votes

And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 55 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

John 15:3 ESV / 49 helpful votes

Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.

John 3:16 ESV / 49 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Isaiah 1:16 ESV / 45 helpful votes

Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil,

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 44 helpful votes

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 44 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

1 Corinthians 3:1-23 ESV / 43 helpful votes

But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready, for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way? For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not being merely human? What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. ...

2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 ESV / 41 helpful votes

The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

1 Corinthians 3:16 ESV / 41 helpful votes

Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?

Numbers 24:5-7 ESV / 41 helpful votes

How lovely are your tents, O Jacob, your encampments, O Israel! Like palm groves that stretch afar, like gardens beside a river, like aloes that the Lord has planted, like cedar trees beside the waters. Water shall flow from his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters; his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.

Hebrews 10:22 ESV / 40 helpful votes

Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

Mark 1:1-45 ESV / 37 helpful votes

The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, “Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way, the voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight,’” John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. And all the country of Judea and all Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. ...

Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 33 helpful votes

As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand. One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. ...

Genesis 7:2 ESV / 33 helpful votes

Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate,

Matthew 12:43 ESV / 32 helpful votes

“When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, but finds none.

Deuteronomy 7:25 ESV / 32 helpful votes

The carved images of their gods you shall burn with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, lest you be ensnared by it, for it is an abomination to the Lord your God.

1 Corinthians 3:17 ESV / 31 helpful votes

If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.

Acts 10:30 ESV / 31 helpful votes

And Cornelius said, “Four days ago, about this hour, I was praying in my house at the ninth hour, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing

Luke 10:38 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a village. And a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house.

Mark 16:16 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

Hebrews 10:31 ESV / 28 helpful votes

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

2 Corinthians 7:1 ESV / 28 helpful votes

Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.

1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 28 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 28 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

1 John 3:9 ESV / 27 helpful votes

No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God.

1 Corinthians 3:11 ESV / 27 helpful votes

For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

John 17:15-17 ESV / 27 helpful votes

I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

1 Peter 2:9 ESV / 26 helpful votes

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Philippians 4:11 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content.

James 1:27 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

Leviticus 19:28 ESV / 25 helpful votes

You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord.

Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 23 helpful votes

If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. ...

Proverbs 31:20 ESV / 23 helpful votes

She opens her hand to the poor and reaches out her hands to the needy.

Proverbs 31:2 ESV / 23 helpful votes

What are you doing, my son? What are you doing, son of my womb? What are you doing, son of my vows?

Hebrews 10:25 ESV / 22 helpful votes

Not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

1 Corinthians 3:23 ESV / 20 helpful votes

And you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.

1 Corinthians 3:14 ESV / 20 helpful votes

If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward.

1 Corinthians 3:2 ESV / 20 helpful votes

I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready,

Proverbs 31:22 ESV / 20 helpful votes

She makes bed coverings for herself; her clothing is fine linen and purple.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 19 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

1 Corinthians 3:21 ESV / 19 helpful votes

So let no one boast in men. For all things are yours,

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Revelation 22:10-11 ESV / 18 helpful votes

And he said to me, “Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is near. Let the evildoer still do evil, and the filthy still be filthy, and the righteous still do right, and the holy still be holy.”

Romans 8:5-6 ESV / 18 helpful votes

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.

Philippians 4:8-9 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

Zechariah 5:1-11 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Again I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a flying scroll! And he said to me, “What do you see?” I answered, “I see a flying scroll. Its length is twenty cubits, and its width ten cubits.” Then he said to me, “This is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole land. For everyone who steals shall be cleaned out according to what is on one side, and everyone who swears falsely shall be cleaned out according to what is on the other side. I will send it out, declares the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter the house of the thief, and the house of him who swears falsely by my name. And it shall remain in his house and consume it, both timber and stones.” Then the angel who talked with me came forward and said to me, “Lift your eyes and see what this is that is going out.” ...

1 Corinthians 3:4 ESV / 15 helpful votes

For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not being merely human?

1 Corinthians 3:5 ESV / 14 helpful votes

What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each.

Acts 19:19 ESV / 14 helpful votes

And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted the value of them and found it came to fifty thousand pieces of silver.

Acts 10:28 ESV / 14 helpful votes

And he said to them, “You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with or to visit anyone of another nation, but God has shown me that I should not call any person common or unclean.

Proverbs 31:25 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come.

Leviticus 11:1-47 ESV / 14 helpful votes

And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying to them, “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, These are the living things that you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth. Whatever parts the hoof and is cloven-footed and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat. Nevertheless, among those that chew the cud or part the hoof, you shall not eat these: The camel, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. And the rock badger, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. ...

1 Corinthians 3:13 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done.

1 Corinthians 3:9 ESV / 13 helpful votes

For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's building.

Proverbs 31:29 ESV / 13 helpful votes

“Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.”

1 Peter 3:21 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Proverbs 31:10 ESV / 12 helpful votes

An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.

Deuteronomy 14:1-29 ESV / 12 helpful votes

“You are the sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead. For you are a people holy to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. “You shall not eat any abomination. These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep. ...

1 Corinthians 3:7 ESV / 11 helpful votes

So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.

Psalm 24:8 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Who is this King of glory? The Lord, strong and mighty, the Lord, mighty in battle!

John 3:16-17 ESV / 10 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

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