Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and unrighteousness.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men's bones and of all uncleanness.

And I know, O Lord, that You are He that searches the hearts, and You love righteousness. I have willingly offered all these things in simplicity of heart. And now I have seen with joy Your people, who are present here, willingly offering to You.

And to Solomon my son give a good heart, to perform Your commandments, and [to observe] Your testimonies, and Your ordinances, and to accomplish the building of Your house.

He that walks blameless, and works righteousness, who speaks truth in his heart.

And with the excellent, You shall be excellent; and with the perverse, You shall be shrewd.

He that is innocent in his hands and pure in his heart; who has not lifted up his soul to vanity, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbor.

For behold, You love truth; You have manifested to me the secret and hidden things of Your wisdom.

Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a steadfast spirit in my inward parts.

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

The Lord loves holy hearts, and all blameless persons are acceptable to Him; a king rules with his lips.

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].

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

Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

All things indeed are pure to the pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but even their mind and conscience have been defiled.

by how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, will cleanse your conscience from dead works in order that we might serve the living God?

let us approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies having been washed with clean water.

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.

Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse [your] hands, [you] sinners; and purify [your] hearts, [you] double-minded.

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 Jacob called the name of that place Peniel; for, [he said], I have seen God face to face, and my life was preserved.

[and] to raise up upon the earth my skin that endures these [sufferings]: for these things have been accomplished to me of the Lord;

which I am conscious of in myself, which my eye has seen, and not another, but all have been fulfilled to me in my bosom.

For now we see through a mirror by reflection, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.

Pursue peace and holiness with all [people], without which no one shall see the Lord:

Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He appears, we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is.

And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.