Purity

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

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

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

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.

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

For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

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

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

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.

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

Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, — read the full passage →

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

Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.

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.

Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.

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

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

Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

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.

The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness. — read the full passage →

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?

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, — read the full passage →

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

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

By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,

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

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.

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?

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: — read the full passage →

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. — read the full passage →

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

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

But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. — read the full passage →

Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee; — read the full passage →

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

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.

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. — read the full passage →

As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man. — read the full passage →

Seek the Lord and his strength, seek his face continually.

Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. — read the full passage →

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

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness; — read the full passage →

Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the Lord your God.

For I am the Lord that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.

A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold. — read the full passage →

Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;

But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

Teach me thy way, O Lord; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.

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

Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. — read the full passage →

Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. — read the full passage →

Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; — read the full passage →

No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. — read the full passage →

For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel; — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?

Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. — read the full passage →

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, — read the full passage →

For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him; — read the full passage →

Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven. — read the full passage →

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: — read the full passage →

Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? — read the full passage →

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? — read the full passage →

Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. — read the full passage →

And certain men which came down from Judea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved. — read the full passage →

And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: — read the full passage →

Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary which looketh toward the east; and it was shut. — read the full passage →

According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.

All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness. — read the full passage →

The Lord is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous. — read the full passage →

The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness. — read the full passage →

Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids. — read the full passage →

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. — read the full passage →

Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen. — read the full passage →

For many are called, but few are chosen. — read the full passage →

Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor; and if the dew be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the earth beside, then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said. — read the full passage →

And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the Lord, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off. — read the full passage →

In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai. — read the full passage →

Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. — read the full passage →

Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them. — read the full passage →

Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee. — read the full passage →

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance. — read the full passage →

Give ear to my words, O Lord, consider my meditation. — read the full passage →

And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach. — read the full passage →

And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither. — read the full passage →