Proverbs 21:8

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

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

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

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,

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

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

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

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

Don’t overthrow God’s work for food’s sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.

I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

Some of you were such, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

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

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

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

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?

Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him, and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.

Some of those who are wise will fall, to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end; because it is yet for the time appointed.

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

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

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,

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

They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.

For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.

By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?

A voice came to him again the second time, “What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean.”

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.

For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

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.

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.

“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still.”

Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God.

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

You send out your Spirit and they are created. You renew the face of the ground.

But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.

He will redeem Israel from all their sins.

a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

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

“Yet you said, ‘I am innocent. Surely his anger has turned away from me.’ “Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’

Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

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.

He said to them, “You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn’t call any man unholy or unclean.

But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn’t of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.

For it has been reported to me concerning you, my brothers, by those who are from Chloe’s household, that there are contentions among you.

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up.

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another.

But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

You also once walked in those, when you lived in them;

But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;

For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

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.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.

Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

He who follows after righteousness and kindness finds life, righteousness, and honor.

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?

Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”

who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths,

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

God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.

The way of the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but he loves him who follows after righteousness.

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

There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.

Behold, I have only found this: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes.”

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says Yahweh.

Many will purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked will do wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand; but those who are wise will understand.

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

“Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.

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

for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?

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.

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

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,

If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.

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