Quotes about Defile

Anyone who touches a human corpse and fails to purify himself defiles the tabernacle of the LORD. That person must be cut off from Israel. He remains unclean, because the water of purification has not been sprinkled on him, and his uncleanness is still on him.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.’”

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.

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.

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,

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