Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Psalm 51:10 Clean – If you invite the King of the Universe to take up residence with you, what condition would you like your house to look like? Dishes piled up from last night’s party? Grass not mowed? Closets with…
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me away from Your presence and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of Your salvation and sustain me with a willing spirit. Psalm 51:10-12 NASB Heart – In Hebrew the…
Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil, Isaiah 1:16 ESV Clean – God instructs His people to “wash” themselves. He demands ritual purity and the submission that accompanies humility before Him. We might think this is sufficient. If we just worship the Lord…
“because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and is eliminated?” (Thus He declared all foods clean.) Mark 7:19 NASB Clean – What a mess this verse has created! Why it became a mess is a study in the program of self-identity that the Church undertook in the third century. Suffice…
k’doshim tihiyu ki kadosh ani YHWH eloheychem Wayyiqra 19:2 Tanakh I am holy – The verse is Leviticus 19:2 in transliterated Hebrew. You might recognize the word kadosh (it occurs twice). tihiyu is the verb hayah (you shall be). When Yeshua refers to this verse in His pronouncement in Matthew 5:48, He has Torah observance…
The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever; the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. Psalm 19:9 (Hebrew World translation) Clean – The comic figure, Mrs. Malaprop, from the play, The Rivals, has become a shorthand expression for the misuse of words. “She might reprehend the true meaning of what…
Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality, . . Galatians 5:19 Impurity – The Greek is akatharsia. This word comes from kathairo (we derive the English “catharsis”). Here Paul makes it a negative, so the meaning is “not cleansed”. The background of katharos is ritual cleansing. It is not…
