Pure

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, 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.

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

Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart fervently:

But flee youthful lusts, and follow after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

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

Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an ensample to them that believe, in word, in manner of life, in love, in faith, in purity.

And every one that hath this hope set on him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

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

To the pure all things are pure: but to them that are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

Do all things without murmurings and questionings: — 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.

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish unto God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

But the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and faith unfeigned:

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:

I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to be of the same mind in the Lord.

as newborn babes, long for the spiritual milk which is without guile, that ye may grow thereby unto salvation;

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

Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into manifold temptations;

let us draw near with a true heart in fulness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience: and having our body washed with pure water,

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

and he made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.

Beloved, now are we children of God, and it is not yet made manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he shall be manifested, we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is.

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

Beloved, now are we children of God, and it is not yet made manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he shall be manifested, we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is. — read the full passage →

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

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

the same came unto him by night, and said to him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that thou doest, except God be with him. — read the full passage →

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

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, — read the full passage →

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

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

Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, — read the full passage →

And seeing the multitudes, he went up into the mountain: and when he had sat down, his disciples came unto him: — read the full passage →

Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.

to be sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed:

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

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

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

And Peter said unto them, Repent ye, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ unto the remission of your sins; and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy. — read the full passage →

Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart.

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

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

casting down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

but I say unto you, that every one that looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

the same came unto him by night, and said to him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that thou doest, except God be with him.

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.

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary the one to the other; that ye may not do the things that ye would.

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

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

Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

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

And he said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

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

For such a high priest became us, holy, guileless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.

instructing us, to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world;

And it was given unto her that she should array herself in fine linen, bright and pure: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

knowing that the proving of your faith worketh patience.

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

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ:

I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers in a pure conscience, how unceasing is my remembrance of thee in my supplications, night and day

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

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