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100 Bible Verses about Washing Away Sins

Acts 22:16 ESV / 302 helpful votes

And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name.’

1 John 1:7 ESV / 299 helpful votes

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 253 helpful votes

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

Titus 3:5 ESV / 221 helpful votes

He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

Acts 2:38 ESV / 217 helpful votes

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Hebrews 9:14 ESV / 204 helpful votes

How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

Revelation 1:5 ESV / 196 helpful votes

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

Psalm 51:2 ESV / 177 helpful votes

Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!

Hebrews 9:22 ESV / 165 helpful votes

Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.

Ephesians 1:7 ESV / 164 helpful votes

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

Romans 5:9 ESV / 163 helpful votes

Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 161 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Isaiah 1:16 ESV / 160 helpful votes

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

James 4:8 ESV / 149 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.

John 13:8 ESV / 144 helpful votes

Peter said to him, “You shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.”

1 Peter 1:18-19 ESV / 143 helpful votes

Knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.

Colossians 1:20 ESV / 141 helpful votes

And through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.

Hebrews 13:12 ESV / 140 helpful votes

So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood.

Psalm 51:1-2 ESV / 140 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!

Ephesians 5:26 ESV / 137 helpful votes

That he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,

Romans 6:3-4 ESV / 137 helpful votes

Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

1 Corinthians 6:11 ESV / 134 helpful votes

And such were some of you. 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 2:8 ESV / 132 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

Romans 3:23 ESV / 129 helpful votes

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Ephesians 5:2 ESV / 126 helpful votes

And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 125 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,

1 Corinthians 1:2 ESV / 125 helpful votes

To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:

Romans 10:9 ESV / 121 helpful votes

Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

1 Peter 3:21 ESV / 120 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,

Mark 16:16 ESV / 120 helpful votes

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

John 3:16 ESV / 119 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.

James 4:2 ESV / 115 helpful votes

You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.

Isaiah 1:2 ESV / 114 helpful votes

Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me.

Revelation 12:11 ESV / 113 helpful votes

And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.

Revelation 7:14 ESV / 113 helpful votes

I said to him, “Sir, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

Hebrews 9:12 ESV / 113 helpful votes

He entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.

Ephesians 2:13 ESV / 113 helpful votes

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

Acts 2:21 ESV / 111 helpful votes

And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.’

1 John 1:6 ESV / 109 helpful votes

If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.

Romans 10:13 ESV / 107 helpful votes

For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

Romans 6:4 ESV / 107 helpful votes

We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 106 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

1 John 1:8-10 ESV / 103 helpful votes

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

Colossians 2:12 ESV / 103 helpful votes

Having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.

Isaiah 43:25 ESV / 103 helpful votes

“I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 102 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.

Matthew 28:19 ESV / 102 helpful votes

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Matthew 26:28 ESV / 102 helpful votes

For this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

Acts 20:28 ESV / 101 helpful votes

Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.

1 Corinthians 12:13 ESV / 98 helpful votes

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.

John 3:5 ESV / 97 helpful votes

Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

Galatians 5:16 ESV / 95 helpful votes

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

Acts 8:36-38 ESV / 95 helpful votes

And as they were going along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “See, here is water! What prevents me from being baptized?” And he commanded the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 90 helpful votes

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Luke 13:3 ESV / 90 helpful votes

No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.

Mark 16:15-16 ESV / 83 helpful votes

And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

Romans 3:25 ESV / 81 helpful votes

Whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.

1 John 5:8 ESV / 80 helpful votes

The Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree.

Romans 6:1-23 ESV / 79 helpful votes

What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. ...

Ezekiel 36:25 ESV / 76 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.

Psalm 51:7 ESV / 75 helpful votes

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

Acts 22:2 ESV / 72 helpful votes

And when they heard that he was addressing them in the Hebrew language, they became even more quiet. And he said:

James 4:4 ESV / 71 helpful votes

You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

John 13:14 ESV / 68 helpful votes

If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.

2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 62 helpful votes

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Ephesians 5:25-26 ESV / 60 helpful votes

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,

Titus 3:2 ESV / 57 helpful votes

To speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all people.

1 John 1:8 ESV / 54 helpful votes

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Romans 6:2 ESV / 45 helpful votes

By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

Hebrews 9:28 ESV / 43 helpful votes

So Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.

Titus 2:14 ESV / 43 helpful votes

Who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.

Colossians 3:5 ESV / 43 helpful votes

Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

Acts 9:18 ESV / 43 helpful votes

And immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he regained his sight. Then he rose and was baptized;

1 Corinthians 10:2 ESV / 42 helpful votes

And all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea,

1 John 2:1 ESV / 41 helpful votes

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

1 John 1:7-9 ESV / 39 helpful votes

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 39 helpful votes

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 ESV / 39 helpful votes

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

John 8:34 ESV / 39 helpful votes

Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin.

Mark 7:20-23 ESV / 39 helpful votes

And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”

Proverbs 28:13 ESV / 39 helpful votes

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

James 1:2 ESV / 38 helpful votes

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds,

Hebrews 9:2 ESV / 38 helpful votes

For a tent was prepared, the first section, in which were the lampstand and the table and the bread of the Presence. It is called the Holy Place.

Romans 10:10 ESV / 37 helpful votes

For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

Hebrews 9:1-28 ESV / 35 helpful votes

Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly place of holiness. For a tent was prepared, the first section, in which were the lampstand and the table and the bread of the Presence. It is called the Holy Place. Behind the second curtain was a second section called the Most Holy Place, having the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, in which was a golden urn holding the manna, and Aaron's staff that budded, and the tablets of the covenant. Above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Of these things we cannot now speak in detail. ...

Galatians 3:27 ESV / 35 helpful votes

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

Leviticus 17:11 ESV / 35 helpful votes

For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life.

Acts 16:33 ESV / 34 helpful votes

And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their wounds; and he was baptized at once, he and all his family.

1 Corinthians 1:17 ESV / 33 helpful votes

For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.

Acts 10:48 ESV / 33 helpful votes

And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to remain for some days.

Matthew 3:11 ESV / 33 helpful votes

“I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

Acts 16:31 ESV / 32 helpful votes

And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

Hebrews 10:22 ESV / 30 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.

Zechariah 13:1 ESV / 28 helpful votes

“On that day there shall be a fountain opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and uncleanness.

1 John 3:5 ESV / 22 helpful votes

You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.

1 John 2:1-2 ESV / 20 helpful votes

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 20 helpful votes

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Philippians 2:12 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,

Ephesians 6:17 ESV / 19 helpful votes

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,

1 John 3:4 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.

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