Bible Dictionary: Ablution: Figurative

◄ Ablution: Figurative ►

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Psalm 51:2,7
Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
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Psalm 65:3
Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, you shall purge them away.
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Psalm 73:13
Truly I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence.
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Psalm 79:9
Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for your name's sake.
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Proverbs 16:6
By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.
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Proverbs 20:9
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
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Isaiah 1:16,18
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil;
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Isaiah 4:3,4
And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remains in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:
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Daniel 12:10
Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
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Zechariah 13:1
In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.
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John 13:8
Peter said to him, You shall never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash you not, you have no part with me.
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Acts 22:16
And now why tarry you? arise, and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.
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1 Corinthians 5:7
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, as you are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
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1 Corinthians 6:11
And such were some of you: but you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
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2 Corinthians 7:1
Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
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Ephesians 5:26
That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
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Titus 3:5,6
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
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Hebrews 1:3
Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high:
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Hebrews 9:14
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
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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 water.
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James 4:8
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double minded.
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2 Peter 1:9
But he that lacks these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and has forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
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1 John 1:7,9
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleans us from all sin.
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Revelation 1:5
And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. To him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
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Revelation 7:14
And I said to him, Sir, you know. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
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Revelation 22:14
Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
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Library

Use Made of Water by the Heathen Type of the Angel at the Pool of ...
... to the rule by which things carnal are always antecedent [8578] as figurative of
things ... in a body [8583] daily, death being done away through ablution of sins. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/tertullian/on baptism/chapter v use made of water.htm

Articuli visitatorii.
... I. That there is but one Baptism, and one Ablution: not that which is used to take
away the ... I. That God is man, and man God, is a figurative mode of speech. ...
/.../the creeds of the evangelical protestant churches/articuli visitatorii.htm

Of the Lord's Supper, and the Benefits Conferred by It.
... (1:Cor.10:16.) There is no ground to object that the expression is figurative, and
gives ... the eye, it would not be to us a sure pledge of our ablution; nay, the ...
/.../calvin/the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 17 of the lords.htm

Subtopics

Ablution

Ablution for Defilement of Lepers

Ablution for Defilement: Those Having Bloody Issue

Ablution for Defilement: Those Having Eaten That Which Died

Ablution of Burnt offerings

Ablution of the Hands