Dear friends, we have these promises from God. So we should make ourselves pure free from anything that makes our body or our soul unclean. Our respect for God should make us try to be completely holy in the way we live.

And Jesus said, "The things that make people wrong are the things that come from the inside.
All these bad things begin inside a person, in the mind: bad thoughts, sexual sins, stealing, murder,
adultery, greed, doing bad things to people, lying, doing things that are morally wrong, jealousy, insulting people, proud talking, and foolish living.
These evil things come from inside a person. And these are the things that make people unacceptable to God."

God, create a pure heart in me, and make my spirit strong again.

To the director: A song of David telling about the time Nathan the prophet came to him after David's sin with Bathsheba God, be merciful to me because of your faithful love. Because of your great compassion, erase all the wrongs I have done.
Scrub away my guilt. Wash me clean from my sin.

But if we confess our sins, God will forgive us. We can trust God to do this. He always does what is right. He will make us clean from all the wrong things we have done.

Come near to God and he will come near to you. You are sinners, so clean sin out of your lives. You are trying to follow God and the world at the same time. Make your thinking pure.

Husbands, love your wives the same as Christ loved the church and gave his life for it.
He died to make the church holy. He used the telling of the Good News to make the church clean by washing it with water.

"Wash yourselves and make yourselves clean. Stop doing the evil things I see you do. Stop doing wrong.

We should live in the light, where God is. If we live in the light, we have fellowship with each other, and the blood sacrifice of Jesus, God's Son, washes away every sin and makes us clean.

Dear friends, now we are children of God. We have not yet been shown what we will be in the future. But we know that when Christ comes again, we will be like him. We will see him just as he is.
He is pure, and everyone who has this hope in him keeps themselves pure like Christ.

He gave himself for us. He died to free us from all evil. He died to make us pure people who belong only to him and who always want to do good.

And that water is like baptism, which now saves you. Baptism is not the washing of dirt from the body. It is asking God for a clean conscience. It saves you because Jesus Christ was raised from death.

The Son shows the glory of God. He is a perfect copy of God's nature, and he holds everything together by his powerful command. The Son made people clean from their sins. Then he sat down at the right side of God, the Great One in heaven.

Now, don't wait any longer. Get up, be baptized and wash your sins away, trusting in Jesus to save you. '

You have already been prepared to produce more fruit by the teaching I have given you.