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Seeking to Be Both Inwardly & Outwardly Clean

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We are to seek to be both inwardly and outwardly clean.

We are to seek to be inwardly clean

We are to seek to be outwardly clean

Category: Godliness, Holiness & Righteousness

Type: Positive

Form: Explicit

Source dataset: New Testament

Uniqueness: Unique

Classical commandment: No

New Covenant Literal Application

Applies to Person Categories: Everyone

Literal Application: mandated

More explanation about New Covenant Literal Application

The New Covenant Literal Application Code (NCLA) is an interpretive guide used by the authors to indicate which person categories a mitzvah applies to, and at what level of literal compliance.

It combines person categories such as Jewish, K'rov Yisrael, and Gentile, together with male/female distinctions and an application level such as mandated, recommended, optional, or prohibited.

This code reflects the authors' interpretive opinion and is provided for prayerful consideration. On this page, the technical code is summarized into plain language to help new readers understand it more easily.

Detailed codes: GFm - Gentile female, mandated | GMm - Gentile male, mandated | JFm - Jewish female, mandated | JMm - Jewish male, mandated | KFm - K'rovat Yisrael female, mandated | KMm - K'rov Yisrael male, mandated

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Bible references

Key NT Scriptures
  • Hebrews 10:22
  • John 13:10
  • 1 Timothy 1:5
Supportive NT Scriptures
  • 2 Corinthians 6:17
  • James 4:8
  • Luke 11:39-41
  • Matthew 23:25-29
  • 1 Timothy 3:8-9
Supportive OT Scriptures
  • Exodus 30:19-21
  • Ezekiel 36:25
  • Isaiah 1:16
  • Leviticus 10:9-10
  • Leviticus 16:30
  • Proverbs 20:9
  • Psalms 24:4-5
  • Psalms 51:12

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Commentary

Rabbi Michael Rudolph

Scripture uses “clean” and “unclean” in several ways – health-related, food-related, ceremony- related, and spiritually. Persons afflicted with sores (especially sores of leprosy) were deemed “unclean,” as were people with bodily discharges and women during menses and after childbirth. Also, certain animals were declared unclean, and people and objects touching something unclean (e.g. a human carcass) could render unclean the object or person who did the touching. All matters of cleanness (including hygienic) had ceremonial consequences in the Mosaic Covenant, especially regarding access to the Sanctuary and the performance of priestly functions. While being “clean” or “unclean” during the Mosaic Covenant had distinct spiritual implications, the New Covenant Scriptures emphasize the spiritual – especially regarding the condition of one’s heart, to holiness, righteousness, godliness, purity, and sin.


Copyright © Michael Rudolph and Daniel C. Juster, The Law of Messiah - Torah from a New Covenant Perspective - Volume 3

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