Pure

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

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

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

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

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

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

To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

Do all things without murmurings and disputes, — read the full passage →

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

“Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

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

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith;

“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to think the same way in the Lord.

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

For in many things we all stumble. If anyone doesn’t stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

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

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

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

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

Who may ascend to Yahweh’s hill? Who may stand in his holy place? — read the full passage →

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, — read the full passage →

Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.

Yahweh’s words are flawless words, as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is. — read the full passage →

Lay hands hastily on no one, neither be a participant in other men’s sins. Keep yourself pure.

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.” — read the full passage →

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the 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 one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

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

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come out like gold. — read the full passage →

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — 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.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy. — read the full passage →

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners 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 is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

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

He who loves purity of heart and speaks gracefully is the king’s friend.

throwing 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 tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

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

With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.

Yahweh detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the thoughts of the pure are pleasing.

The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’”

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me. — read the full passage →

“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

“Surely I am the most ignorant man, and don’t have a man’s understanding.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

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

Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,

He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness. — read the full passage →

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.

For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

“Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat bread.”

Your promises have been thoroughly tested, and your servant loves them.

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

My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

It was given to her that she would array herself in bright, pure, fine linen: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

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

He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully. — read the full passage →

As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

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

I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day

Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be! — read the full passage →

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies. — read the full passage →

Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

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