Being Pure

Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

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.

Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:

The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: — read the full passage →

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.

Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place? — read the full passage →

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.

Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, — read the full passage →

Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. — read the full passage →

Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the Lord weigheth the spirits.

Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men’s sins: keep thyself pure.

Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.

For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.

Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

Do all things without murmurings and disputings: — read the full passage →

As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the Lord is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: — read the full passage →

Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.

Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. — read the full passage →

For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. — read the full passage →

The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.

I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; — read the full passage →

For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: — read the full passage →

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — read the full passage →

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.

And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. — read the full passage →

For I am the Lord your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. — read the full passage →

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. — read the full passage →

Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.

My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.

What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.

The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.

But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.

Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. — read the full passage →

As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the Lord is tried: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him.

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. — read the full passage →