Cleanness in a sentence

That the priests were not mere teachers of law and morals, but also gave ritual instruction (e.g, regarding cleanness and uncleanness), is of course not denied by this.

Such also were the opinions of the Pharisees which Christ reproved, and to this feigned cleansing He opposes a double cleanness, the one internal, the other external.

He bids them be cleansed inwardly [(which occurs only through faith)], and adds concerning the outward cleanness: Give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you.

For He indicates that outward cleanness is to be referred to works commanded by God, and not to human traditions, such as the ablutions were at that time, and the daily sprinkling of water, the vesture of monks, the distinctions of food, and similar acts of ostentation are now.

But what Isaiah says: Be ye clean that bear the vessels of the Lord, ought to be understood as referring to cleanness of heart and to the entire repentance.

He that loveth cleanness of heart, for the grace of his lips shall have the king for his friend.

The simple beauty of the architecture, its perfect adaptation to the natural surroundings, the neatness of everything though without formality, the general cleanness and good repair, the grace of cottage gardens, that tranquillity and security which make a music in the mind of him who gazes-these are what a man must see and feel if he would appreciate the worth and the power of England.

Johnny, secure in his fresh cleanness and his ignorance of the traditions of the place, strode through the onyx-pillared lobby peopled with well-fed, modish human beings who conversed in modulated voices or bustled in and out, engrossed with affairs which might or might not be of national importance.

Really he was delighted at the cleanness of the slate on which he had to write.

A few years of peace and cleanness, as I am-as I now am-I hope for that, and for nothing more; I don't want anything more-I'd rather not.

After walking through the principal streets and making a general survey of the shops,-no one speaks of _store_,-I think I can testify to the extraordinary cleanness of the city, and the massiveness and grandeur of the public buildings.

Its excessive cleanness and whiteness are a trouble in one way: the sun is reflected into your eyes with such energy as you walk along that you want to sneeze all the time.

Martha had scoured the boarded floor to a white cleanness, and it was adorned with a brilliant piece of oil-cloth, on which customers were to stand before the table-counter.

No President has surpassed him in the cleanness of his record, and only Washington has equaled him.

And it is of a piece with his absolute fiery cleanness that never for a moment does he think of taking the lover's obvious revenge.

A soldier may be smart and clean, but if he fails in battle his smartness and cleanness are worth nothing-he is a bad soldier.

He was standing in the doorway, with a startling cleanness of the hands and face, and a strange, wet sleekness of the hair.

The old priests, who conducted the service of the Goddess, had received the daughter of Rameses with respect, and undertook to restore her to cleanness by degrees with the help of the water from the mountain-stream which watered the palm-grove of the Amalekites, of incense-burning, of pious sentences, and of a hundred other ceremonies.

I've a notion that cleanness is nine-tenths of surgery; and it's all there is to nursing-but few agree with me.

The reading from St John where is told the institution of the last supper, was followed by a prayer of thanksgiving, that even in the forest-wilderness heaven's manna was to be found by those who seek for it, with passionate entreaty for forgiveness and cleanness of heart.