Cleanliness really is next to godliness for Jehovah's Witnesses.

"We are clean - our souls are clean," an elder proclaimed from the stage.

Packed: Etihad Stadium hosts the International Convention of Jehovah's Witnesses. Credit:Simon O'Dwyer

"We don't allow ourselves to look at pornography in our hotel rooms ... and we don't smoke."

The 70,000 delegates had arrived last Thursday to a city plagued by headlines about porn rings at parliament, but those who spoke urged the delegates to resist their host city's seedier temptations.