Defile

Now if you make an altar of stones for Me, you must not build it with stones shaped by tools; for if you use a chisel on it, you will defile it.

Do not defile yourselves by any crawling creature; do not become unclean or defiled by them.

For I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any creature that crawls along the ground.

You must not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife and thus defile yourself with her.

Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves.

So if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it spewed out the nations before you.

You must keep My charge not to practice any of the abominable customs that were practiced before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the LORD your God.”

You must not defile your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Speak to Aaron’s sons, the priests, and tell them that a priest is not to defile himself for a dead person among his people,

He is not to defile himself for those related to him by marriage, and so profane himself.

He must not go near any dead body; he must not defile himself, even for his father or mother.

…so that he does not defile his offspring among his people, for I am the LORD who sanctifies him.”

You must send away male and female alike; send them outside the camp so they will not defile their camp, where I dwell among them.”

Even if his father or mother or brother or sister should die, he is not to defile himself, because the symbol of consecration to his God is upon his head.

Once you have presented the best part of it, you will not incur guilt because of it. But you must not defile the sacred offerings of the Israelites, or else you will die.’”

Do not defile the land where you live and where I dwell. For I, the LORD, dwell among the Israelites.”

…you must not leave the body on the tree overnight, but you must be sure to bury him that day, because anyone who is hung on a tree is under God’s curse. You must not defile the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the hillside, and he sent someone to take the bones out of the tombs, and he burned them on the altar to defile it, according to the word of the LORD proclaimed by the man of God who had foretold these things.

The LORD of Hosts planned it, to defile all its glorious beauty, to disgrace all the renowned of the earth.

And I will hand these things over as plunder to foreigners and loot to the wicked of the earth, who will defile them.

I will turn My face away from them, and they will defile My treasured place. Violent men will enter it, and they will defile it.

I will turn My face away from them, and they will defile My treasured place. Violent men will enter it, and they will defile it.

Then He told them, “Defile the temple and fill the courts with the slain. Go forth!” So they went out and began killing throughout the city.

…in order that the house of Israel may no longer stray from Me and no longer defile themselves with all their transgressions. Then they will be My people and I will be their God, declares the Lord GOD.’”

He does not eat at the mountain or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her period.

He does not eat at the mountain or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife.

And I said to them: ‘Each of you must throw away the abominations before his eyes, and you must not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.’

In the wilderness I said to their children: ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.

Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: Will you defile yourselves the way your fathers did, prostituting yourselves with their abominations?

When you offer your gifts, sacrificing your sons in the fire, you continue to defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. So should I be consulted by you, O house of Israel? As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will not be consulted by you!

And as for you, O house of Israel, this is what the Lord GOD says: Go and serve your idols, every one of you. But afterward, you will surely listen to Me, and you will no longer defile My holy name with your gifts and idols.

…and tell her that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘O city who brings her own doom by shedding blood within her walls and making idols to defile herself,

…behold, I will bring foreigners against you, the most ruthless of nations. They will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and will defile your splendor.

They will no longer defile themselves with their idols or detestable images, or with any of their transgressions. I will save them from all their apostasies by which they sinned, and I will cleanse them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.

…and He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place for the soles of My feet, where I will dwell among the Israelites forever. The house of Israel will never again defile My holy name—neither they nor their kings—by their prostitution and by the funeral offerings for their kings at their deaths.

A priest must not defile himself by going near a dead person. However, for a father, a mother, a son, a daughter, a brother, or an unmarried sister, he may do so,

But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the king’s food or wine. So he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself.

But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the king’s food or wine. So he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself.

But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these things defile a man.

These are what defile a man, but eating with unwashed hands does not defile him.”

These are what defile a man, but eating with unwashed hands does not defile him.”

Nothing that enters a man from the outside can defile him; but the things that come out of a man, these are what defile him.”

Nothing that enters a man from the outside can defile him; but the things that come out of a man, these are what defile him.”

“Are you still so dull?” He asked. “Do you not understand? Nothing that enters a man from the outside can defile him,

All these evils come from within, and these are what defile a man.”

See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and defile many.

Yet in the same way these dreamers defile their bodies, reject authority, and slander glorious beings.