Purity

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

Wherewith 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 ensample to them that believe, in word, in manner of life, in love, in faith, in purity.

Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators 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 abstain from fornication; — 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.

Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: 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 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.

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

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

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye 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 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.

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

Wherefore Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, And touch no unclean thing; And I will receive you, — read the full passage →

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

Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity, And quicken me in thy ways.

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:

Pray for us: for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.

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

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

Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Every one that committeth sin is the bondservant of sin.

But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

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.

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

Thou that art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and that canst not look on perverseness, wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy peace when the wicked swalloweth up the man that is more righteous than he;

Or 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 men, — read the full passage →

I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

I made a covenant with mine eyes; How then should I look upon a virgin?

in pureness, in knowledge, in longsuffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned,

Surely God is good to Israel, Evento such as are pure in heart.

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.

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?

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

because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it 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 Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; Butthe foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

Who shall ascend into the hill of Jehovah? And 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.

Even so reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus. — read the full passage →

If therefore thou art offering thy gift at the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath aught against thee, — read the full passage →

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

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.

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

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

Seek ye Jehovah and his strength; Seek his face evermore.

because it is written, Ye shall be holy; for I am holy. — read the full passage →

With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; And with the perverse thou wilt show thyself froward.

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

Therefore shall ye keep my charge, that ye practise not any of these abominable customs, which were practised before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am Jehovah your God.

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

Agoodname is rather to be chosen than great riches, And loving favor rather than silver and gold. — read the full passage →

not by works done in righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,

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

Teach me thy way, O Jehovah; 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 abstain from fornication; — read the full passage →

And I will 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 soldier on service entangleth himself in the affairs of this life; that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier. — read the full passage →

because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, 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, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

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

Blessed are they that are perfect in the way, Who walk in the law of Jehovah. — read the full passage →

Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, 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 Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, — read the full passage →

Masters, render 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 who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

So then am I become your enemy, by telling you the truth? — read the full passage →

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

Brethren, my heart’s desire and my supplication to God is for them, that they may be saved. — read the full passage →

And certain men came down from Judæa and taught the brethren, saying, Except ye be circumcised after the custom of Moses, ye cannot be saved. — read the full passage →

And I will show wonders in the heaven above, And signs on the earth beneath; Blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke: — read the full passage →

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

According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions did I unto them; and I hid my face from them.

All this have I seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his evil-doing. — read the full passage →

Jehovah 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 the treacherous shall be taken in their own iniquity. — read the full passage →

Lust not after her beauty in thy 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 are passed away; and the sea is no more. — read the full passage →

Behold, he cometh with the clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they that pierced him; and all the tribes of the earth shall mourn over him. Even so, Amen. — read the full passage →

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

behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing-floor; if there be dew on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the ground, then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by my hand, as thou hast spoken. — read the full passage →

And he said unto Moses, Come up unto Jehovah, 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 after 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, mysons, 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 highways to Zion. — read the full passage →

Seeing that thou hatest instruction, And castest my words behind thee? — read the full passage →

Blessed is the nation whose God is Jehovah, The people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance. — read the full passage →

Give ear to my words, O Jehovah, Consider my meditation. — read the full passage →

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

And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hand of the Ishmaelites, that had brought him down thither. — read the full passage →