Exodus 40:31-32
40:31 Moses and Aaron and his sons would wash their hands and their feet from it.
40:32 Whenever they entered
the tent of meeting, and whenever they approached
the altar, they would wash,
just as the
Lord had commanded Moses.
Psalms 26:6
26:6 I maintain a pure lifestyle,
so I can appear before your altar, O Lord,
Isaiah 52:11
52:11 Leave! Leave! Get out of there!
Don’t touch anything unclean!
Get out of it!
Stay pure, you who carry the Lord’s holy items!
John 13:8-10
13:8 Peter said to him, “You will never wash my feet!”
Jesus replied,
“If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.”
13:9 Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, wash
not only my feet, but also my hands and my head!”
13:10 Jesus replied,
“The one who has bathed needs only to wash his feet,
but is completely
clean.
And you disciples
are clean, but not every one of you.”
John 13:1
Washing the Disciples’ Feet
13:1 Just before the Passover feast, Jesus knew that his time had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now loved them to the very end.
Colossians 1:9-11
Paul’s Prayer for the Growth of the Church
1:9 For this reason we also, from the day we heard about you, have not ceased praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
1:10 so that you may live worthily of the Lord and please him in all respects – bearing fruit in every good deed, growing in the knowledge of God,
1:11 being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might for the display of all patience and steadfastness, joyfully
Titus 3:5
3:5 he saved us not by works of righteousness that we have done but on the basis of his mercy, through the washing of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,
Hebrews 9:10
9:10 They served only for matters of food and drink
and various washings; they are external regulations
imposed until the new order came.
Hebrews 10:22
10:22 let us draw near with a sincere heart in the assurance that faith brings,
because we have had our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience
and our bodies washed in pure water.
Revelation 1:5-6
1:5 and from Jesus Christ – the faithful
witness,
the firstborn from among the dead, the ruler over the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and has set us free
from our sins at the cost of
his own blood
1:6 and has appointed
us as a kingdom,
as priests
serving his God and Father – to him be the glory and the power for ever and ever!
Amen.