I was MORTIFIED that they had a handful of my filthy drawings in their clutches.

Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

The filth and stench of the city were caked into her skin. She seemed part of the garbage she was ­lying in.

And unlike meat from those filthy places, it will not pollute rivers and streams, deplete groundwater or cause deforestation.

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.