Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old things passed away; behold, all things have become new.

For we are His handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

A Psalm of Asaph. How good is God to Israel, to the upright in heart!

Who will boast that he has a pure heart? Or who will boldly say that he is pure from sins?

your adultery also, and your neighing, and the looseness of your fornication. On the hills and in the fields I have seen your abominations. Woe to you, O Jerusalem, for you have not been purified so as to follow Me; how long yet [shall it be]?

And I will give them another way, and another heart, to fear Me continually, and [that] for good to them and their children after them.

And I will give them another heart, and will put a new spirit within them; and will extract the heart of stone from their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh;

Cast away from yourselves all your ungodliness in which you have sinned against Me; and make to yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: for why should you die, O house of Israel?

and I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be purged from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols, and I will cleanse you.

And I will put My Spirit in you, and will cause you to walk in My ordinances, and to keep My judgments, and do [them].

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

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

Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere love for the brothers, love one another fervently from a pure heart,

And do not fashion yourselves after this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and well pleasing and perfect will of God.

that you put off, concerning your former way of life, the old man which is being corrupted according to the deceitful lusts,

and that you put on the new man which was created in the likeness of God, in true righteousness and holiness.

and have put on the new man who is renewed in full knowledge according to the image of Him who created it,

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

That they should not be as their fathers, a perverse and provoking generation; a generation which set not its heart aright, and its spirit was not steadfast with God.

For their heart [was] not right with Him, neither were they steadfast in His covenant.

Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the [son] of Jephunneh the Kenizzite until this day, because he followed the commandment of the Lord God of Israel.

And he walked in the sins of his father which he wrought in his presence, and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as [was] the heart of his father [David].

Forasmuch as David did that which was right in the sight of the Lord; he turned not from anything that He commanded him all the days of his life.

who, arriving and seeing the grace of God, was glad, and encouraged them all with purpose of heart to continue with the Lord,

So then, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.