Bible verses about Defilement
Scripture references about Defilement, organized by subject from the classic topical indexes of Orville Nave and R. A. Torrey.
Defilement in Torrey's Topical Textbook
- Forbidden to the Jews: Le 11:44,45
- THINGS LIABLE TO CEREMONIAL
- The person: Le 5:3
- Garments: Le 13:59
- Furniture, &c: Le 15:9,10; Nu 19:14,15
- Houses: Le 14:44
- The land: Le 18:25; De 21:23
- The sanctuary: Le 20:3; Zep 3:4
- CEREMONIAL CAUSED BY
- Eating unclean things: Le 11:8; Ac 10:11,14
- Eating things that died: Le 17:15
- Touching a dead body or a bone: Nu 9:6,7; 19:11,16
- Touching a grave: Nu 19:16
- Touching a dead beast: Le 5:2; 11:24-28
- Being alone with a dead body: Nu 19:14
- Mourning for the dead: Le 21:1-3
- Having a leprosy: Le 13:3,11; Nu 5:2,3
- Having an issue, &c: Le 15:2; Nu 5:2
- Touching anything defiled by an issue, &c: Le 15:5-11
- Going into a leprous house: Le 14:46
- Sacrificing the red heifer: Nu 19:7
- Burning the red heifer: Nu 19:8
- Gathering the ashes of the red heifer: Nu 19:10
- Touching an unclean person: Nu 19:22
- Child bearing: Le 12:2
- Causes of, improperly enlarged by tradition: Mr 7:2; Mt 15:20
- MORAL, CAUSED BY
- Following the sins of the heathen: Le 18:24
- Seeking after wizards: Le 19:31
- Giving children to Molech: Le 20:3
- Making and serving idols: Eze 20:17,18; 22:3,4; 23:7
- Blood shedding: Isa 59:3
- Moral, punished: Le 18:24,25,28,29
- Those under, removed from the camp: Nu 5:3,4; De 23:14
- PRIESTS
- To decide in all cases of: Le 10:10; 13:3
- Specially required to avoid: Le 21:1-6,11,12
- Not to eat holy things while under: Le 22:2,4-6
- Punished for eating of the holy things while under: Le 22:3
- Cleansed by legal offerings: Nu 19:18,19; Heb 9:13
- Neglecting purification from, punished by cutting off: Nu 19:13,20
- Ceremonial, abolished under the gospel: Ac 10:15; Ro 14:14; Col 2:20-22
- ILLUSTRATIVE
- Of sin: Mt 15:11,18; Jude 1:8
- Of unholy doctrines: 1Co 3:16,17