📖 Biblical Definition
Undefiled is the biblical word for what is pure, unstained, free from ceremonial or moral pollution. Christ Himself is undefiled: "holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners" (Hebrews 7:26). The believer’s inheritance is undefiled: "reserved in heaven for you" (1 Peter 1:4). True religion is undefiled: "to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world" (James 1:27). The marriage bed is to be kept undefiled: "Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge" (Hebrews 13:4). What God calls undefiled the world calls prudish; the church must learn again to call it holy.
📜 Webster 1828 Definition
Pure, unstained; applied to Christ, the inheritance, and the bed.
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Pure, unstained, free from ceremonial or moral pollution; an attribute of Christ Himself, of the heavenly inheritance reserved for the saints, of pure religion before the Father, and of the bed within marriage.
📖 Key Scripture
Hebrews 7:26 — "For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens."
1 Peter 1:4 — "To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you."
James 1:27 — "Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world."
⚠️ Modern Corruption
Reduced to ritual purity language; Scripture uses it of moral and eschatological reality.
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Undefiled in Hebrews 7 says something about Christ; in 1 Peter 1, about your inheritance; in James 1, about religion; in Hebrews 13, about marriage. The purity is real, not ceremonial. The Christ who is undefiled keeps undefiled what He claims.
🔗 Greek & Hebrew Roots
Greek amiantos — undefiled.
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['Greek', 'G283', 'amiantos', 'undefiled']
['Greek', 'G3392', 'miainō', 'to defile']
Usage
"Christ is undefiled; so is your inheritance."
"Marriage bed and pure religion both."