Matthew 5:8

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

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  • Ps 24:4 : 4 The one whose deeds are blameless and whose motives are pure, who does not lie, or make promises with no intention of keeping them.
  • Heb 12:14 : 14 Do Not Reject God’s Warning Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness, for without it no one will see the Lord.
  • 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 You have purified your souls by obeying the truth in order to show sincere mutual love. So love one another earnestly from a pure heart.
  • Ps 51:10 : 10 Create for me a pure heart, O God! Renew a resolute spirit within me!
  • Acts 15:9 : 9 and he made no distinction between them and us, cleansing their hearts by faith.
  • Prov 22:11 : 11 The one who loves a pure heart and whose speech is gracious– the king will be his friend.
  • 1 John 3:2-3 : 2 Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that whenever it is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is. 3 And everyone who has this hope focused on him purifies himself, just as Jesus is pure).
  • Rev 22:4 : 4 and they will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.
  • Jas 4:8 : 8 Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and make your hearts pure, you double-minded.
  • Titus 1:15 : 15 All is pure to those who are pure. But to those who are corrupt and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their minds and consciences are corrupted.
  • Matt 23:25-28 : 25 “Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. 26 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside may become clean too! 27 “Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean. 28 In the same way, on the outside you look righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
  • Heb 10:22 : 22 let us draw near with a sincere heart in the assurance that faith brings, because we have had our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water.
  • Ezek 36:25-27 : 25 I will sprinkle you with pure water and you will be clean from all your impurities. I will purify you from all your idols. 26 I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will remove the heart of stone from your body and give you a heart of flesh. 27 I will put my Spirit within you; I will take the initiative and you will obey my statutes and carefully observe my regulations.
  • 1 Cor 13:12 : 12 For now we see in a mirror indirectly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I have been fully known.
  • Ps 73:1 : 1 Book 3(Psalms 73-89) A psalm by Asaph. Certainly God is good to Israel, and to those whose motives are pure!
  • 1 Chr 29:17-19 : 17 I know, my God, that you examine thoughts and are pleased with integrity. With pure motives I contribute all this; and now I look with joy as your people who have gathered here contribute to you. 18 O LORD God of our ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, always maintain these motives of your people and keep them devoted to you. 19 Make my son Solomon willing to obey your commands, rules, and regulations, and to complete building the palace for which I have made preparations.”
  • Jas 3:17 : 17 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, accommodating, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial, and not hypocritical.
  • Ps 18:26 : 26 You prove to be reliable to one who is blameless, but you prove to be deceptive to one who is perverse.
  • 2 Cor 7:1 : 1 Self-Purification Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that could defile the body and the spirit, and thus accomplish holiness out of reverence for God.
  • Heb 9:14 : 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our consciences from dead works to worship the living God.
  • Gen 32:30 : 30 So Jacob named the place Peniel, explaining,“Certainly I have seen God face to face and have survived.”
  • Job 19:26-27 : 26 And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God, 27 whom I will see for myself, and whom my own eyes will behold, and not another. My heart grows faint within me.
  • Ps 15:2 : 2 Whoever lives a blameless life, does what is right, and speaks honestly.
  • Ps 51:6 : 6 Look, you desire integrity in the inner man; you want me to possess wisdom.

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