2 Timothy 2:21
If a man makes himself clean from these, he will be a vessel for honour, made holy, ready for the master's use, ready for every good work.
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Psalms 119:9BETH How may a young man make his way clean? by guiding it after your word.
Isaiah 52:11Away! away! go out from there, touching no unclean thing; go out from among her; be clean, you who take up the vessels of the Lord.
Malachi 3:3He will take his seat, testing and cleaning the sons of Levi, burning away the evil from them as from gold and silver; so that they may make offerings to the Lord in righteousness.
1 Corinthians 5:7Take away, then, the old leaven, so that you may be a new mass, even as you are without leaven. For Christ has been put to death as our Passover.
Ephesians 2:10For by his act we were given existence in Christ Jesus to do those good works which God before made ready for us so that we might do them.
2 Timothy 3:17So that the man of God may be complete, trained and made ready for every good work.
Matthew Henry on 2 Timothy 2:20-22
Cautions against Error. ( a. d. 66.) 19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity. 20 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour. 21 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good… Read the whole commentary →