Psalms 18:26

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

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

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

He executes justice for the fatherless and widow and loves the foreigner in giving him food and clothing.

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

But if you don’t forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

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.

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.

Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.

Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow’s borders intact.

The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.

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

For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but he knows the proud from afar.

Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to Yahweh, but those whose ways are blameless are his delight.

Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free.

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.

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.

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.

For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?

“ ‘If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.

The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

Now hear me therefore, and send back the captives that you have taken captive from your brothers, for the fierce wrath of Yahweh is on you.”

After my skin is destroyed, then I will see God in my flesh,

But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, you alone will bear it.

For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

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

So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds.”

Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

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

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?

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

Beloved, now we are children of God. 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.

Jacob called the name of the place Peniel; for he said, “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”

then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins.

“ ‘If you in spite of this won’t listen to me, but walk contrary to me,

“ ‘If they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me; and also that because they walked contrary to me,

He must restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity!”

as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was in my tent,

Therefore men revere him. He doesn’t regard any who are wise of heart.”

He who walks blamelessly and does what is right, and speaks truth in his heart;

With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.

Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.

Whom do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth whom I desire besides you.

Yahweh upholds the humble. He brings the wicked down to the ground.

For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh, but his friendship is with the upright.

He who walks blamelessly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.

The mouth of the righteous produces wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.

The proud and arrogant man—“Scoffer” is his name— he works in the arrogance of pride.

Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

But there shall be no more gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time, he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time he has made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.

I was angry with my people. I profaned my inheritance and gave them into your hand. You showed them no mercy. You laid a very heavy yoke on the aged.

Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

Therefore Yahweh says: “You have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim to you a liberty,” says Yahweh, “to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine. I will make you be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.

Leave your fatherless children. I will preserve them alive. Let your widows trust in me.”

“You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and strike your hands together. Let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the fatally wounded. It is the sword of the great one who is fatally wounded, which enters into their rooms.

“I have only chosen you of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all of your sins.”

For the day of Yahweh is near all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head.

Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.

He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to you first to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your wickedness.”

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

But glory, honor, and peace go to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

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

He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

One who has a perverse heart doesn’t find prosperity, and one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.

oppression, and anguish on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down.