Washing

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

Of hands, a token of innocence

• Deuteronomy 21:6 Then all the elders of the city nearest the victim shall wash their hands by the stream over the heifer whose neck has been broken,
• Psalm 26:6 I wash my hands in innocence that I may go about Your altar, O LORD,
• Psalm 73:13 Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure; in innocence I have washed my hands.
• Matthew 27:24 When Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but that instead a riot was breaking out, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd. “I am innocent of this man’s blood,” he said. “You bear the responsibility.”

See Ablution

See Purification

Figurative

Of regeneration

• Psalm 51:7 Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
• Proverbs 30:12 There is a generation of those who are pure in their own eyes and yet unwashed of their filth.
• Isaiah 1:16 Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!
• Isaiah 4:4 when the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains from the heart of Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of fire.
• Zechariah 13:1 “On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and the people of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity.
• 1 Corinthians 6:11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
• Ephesians 5:26 to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
• Titus 3:5 He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.