Akatharsia ἀκαθαρσία

Akatharsia (Greek ἀκαθαρσία, Strong's G167) is a Greek feminine noun meaning “impurity”. It occurs 10 times in 10 verses of the New Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Greek (based on Abbott-Smith), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Akatharsia, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Matthew

• 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.Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity.

Romans

• Romans 1:24
  Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.
• 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 and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.

2 Corinthians

• 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 and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.I am afraid that when I come again, my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of their acts of impurity, sexual immorality, and debauchery.

Galatians

• Galatians 5:19
  Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;

Ephesians

• Ephesians 4:19
  Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, with a craving for more.
• Ephesians 5:3
  But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.

Colossians

• Colossians 3:5
  Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.

1 Thessalonians

• 1 Thessalonians 2:3
  For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:For our appeal does not arise from deceit or ulterior motives or trickery.
• 1 Thessalonians 4:7
  For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).