No; if you will only keep on trusting to that precious blood, and not turn away from it, He says that it cleanseth, that is, _goes on cleansing_. ❋ Frances Ridley Havergal (1857)
He is speaking not of justification through His blood once for all, but of the present sanctification ( "cleanseth" is present tense) which the believer, walking in the light and having fellowship with God and the saints, enjoys as His privilege. ❋ Unknown (1871)
Quoth the Prophet, ‘The bath is the blessing of the house, for that it cleanseth the body and calleth to mind the Fire.’ ❋ Unknown (2006)
Proverbs 20:30 says, "The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil; so do stripes the inward parts of the belly." ❋ Zoe Brain (2007)
P. Cnemander, and Montanus commend [4413] Cyprian turpentine, which they would have familiarly taken, to the quantity of a small nut, two or three hours before dinner and supper, twice or thrice a week if need be; for besides that it keeps the belly soluble, it clears the stomach, opens obstructions, cleanseth the liver, provokes urine. ❋ Unknown (2007)
O value of wisdom that fadeth not away with time, virtue ever flourishing, that cleanseth its possessor from all venom! ❋ Unknown (2007)
[4607] That other love infects the soul of man, this cleanseth; that depresses, this rears; that causeth cares and troubles, this quietness of mind; this informs, that deforms our life; that leads to repentance, this to heaven. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Dioscor. wonders the physicians of his time made no more use of it, because it rarefies and cleanseth: we use it to this purpose in our ordinary beer, which before was thick and fulsome. ❋ Unknown (2007)
And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly. ❋ Unknown (2006)
For it cleanseth the blood and putteth out melancholy. ❋ Unknown (2004)
"If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin." ❋ Unknown (2004)
If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. ❋ Unknown (1999)
Page 287 of the fathers were visited upon me as a representative of the third and fourth generations, and my heart overflows with gratitude toward the love of a Saviour, whose blood 'cleanseth us from all sin. ❋ Unknown (1984)
A wise man that judgeth judgment, defileth and cleanseth [that is, he declares defiled or clean]; he looseth and bindeth. ❋ 1602-1675 (1979)
