Life's dirty. Life's unclean you know. It's birth, it's sex, it's the intestinal tract. One big squishy, unsanitary mess. It never gets any cleaner either. You know, dust to dust, worms crawl in, worms crawl out, right Even though we know that, we still walk the walk, we still live the life. We're like a bunch of little kids. Little kids, you know, we jump in this big old pond of mud and we're slapping it all over our face, rubbing our hair all down our backs and we're making these glorious, gooey, mud pies. That's us.
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
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What shall we say of the bones, unclean, Whose verdurous anonymity will grow?...
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Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.
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Amos 7:17:
'Therefore this is what the LORD says: 'Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword. Your land will be measured and divided up, and you yourself will die in a pagan country. And Israel will surely go into exile, away from their native land.''
(NIV)
Therefore thus says the Lord: Your wife shall be a harlot in the city and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided up by line; you yourself shall die in an unclean and defiled land, and Israel shall surely go forth out of his land into exile.
(AMP)
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.
(KJV)
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Isaiah 64:6:
All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away.
(NIV)
For we have all become like one who is unclean [ceremonially, like a leper], and all our righteousness (our best deeds of rightness and justice) is like filthy rags or a polluted garment; we all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away [far from God's favor, hurrying us toward destruction]. [Lev. 13:45, 46.](AMP)
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
(KJV)
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Matthew 10:1:
Jesus called his twelve disciples to him and gave them authority to drive out evil spirits and to heal every disease and sickness.
(NIV)
AND JESUS summoned to Him His twelve disciples and gave them power and authority over unclean spirits, to drive them out, and to cure all kinds of disease and all kinds of weakness and infirmity.
(AMP)
And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.
(KJV)
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And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not offer a sacrifice unto the LORD, then he shall present the beast before the priest: / And the priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad: as thou valuest it, who art the priest, so shall it be.
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An unclean person is universally a slothful one.
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Acts 10:14:
'Surely not, Lord!' Peter replied. 'I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.'
(NIV)
But Peter said, No, by no means, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common and unhallowed or [ceremonially] unclean.
(AMP)
But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.
(KJV)
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Mark 6:7:
Calling the Twelve to him, he began to send them out two by two and gave them authority over evil spirits.
(NIV)
And He called to Him the Twelve [apostles] and began to send them out [as His ambassadors] two by two and gave them authority and power over the unclean spirits.
(AMP)
And he called unto him the twelve, and began to send them forth by two and two; and gave them power over unclean spirits;
(KJV)
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