The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.
All will come out in the washing.
Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. "Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.
God loveth the clean.
I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.
He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.
For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.