Occurrences
Akatharsía occurs 10 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Matthew (1), Romans (2), 2 Corinthians (1), Galatians (1), Ephesians (2), Colossians (1), 1 Thessalonians (2)
- Matthew 23:27 — Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness (ἀκαθαρσίας).
- Romans 1:24 — Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness (ἀκαθαρσίαν) through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
- Romans 6:19 — I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness (ἀκαθαρσίᾳ) and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
- 2 Corinthians 12:21 — And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness (ἀκαθαρσίᾳ) and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
- Galatians 5:19 — Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness (ἀκαθαρσίᾳ), lasciviousness,
- Ephesians 4:19 — Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness (ἀκαθαρσίας) with greediness.
- Ephesians 5:3 — But fornication, and all uncleanness (ἀκαθαρσίᾳ), or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
- Colossians 3:5 — Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness (ἀκαθαρσίαν), inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
- 1 Thessalonians 2:3 — For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness (ἀκαθαρσίας), nor in guile:
- 1 Thessalonians 4:7 — For God hath not called us unto uncleanness (ἀκαθαρσίᾳ), but unto holiness.