Proverbs 20:9

I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel?

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

He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

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

but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;

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,

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.

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

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

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

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

In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.

I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and the good of their children after them.

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

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

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

For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

Therefore “ ‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

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,

For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him.

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

but he shall wash its innards and its legs with water. The priest shall burn all of it on the altar, for a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

Whoever carries any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.

“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

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

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

Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

You shall burn the whole ram on the altar: it is a burnt offering to Yahweh; it is a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

and will make an offering by fire to Yahweh—a burnt offering, or a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or as a free will offering, or in your set feasts, to make a pleasant aroma to Yahweh, of the herd, or of the flock—

Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness. He rewarded me according to the cleanness of my hands.

If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;

‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, Yahweh,

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “For this, moreover, I will be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock.

Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and doesn’t sin.

People went out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus and found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus’ feet, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

“If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to a land far off or near;

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

The priest shall examine him again on the seventh day. Behold, if the plague has faded and the plague hasn’t spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. It is a scab. He shall wash his clothes, and be clean.

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

How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.

For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

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

For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

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