Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cleanse the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of extortion and self-indulgence.

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 all uncleanness.

I know also, my God, that You examine the heart and take pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things; and now with joy I have seen Your people who are found here, to offer willingly to You.

And give my son Solomon a perfect heart to keep Your commandments and Your testimonies and Your statutes, to do all these things, and to build the temple for which I have made provision.

He who walks uprightly, and works righteousness, and speaks the truth in his heart;

with the pure You will show Yourself pure; and with the crooked You will show Yourself twisted.

He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts; and in the hidden part You shall make me to know wisdom.

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

i1 [A Psalm of Asaph.] i0 par Truly God is good to Israel, to the pure of heart.

He who loves pureness of heart and has grace on his lips; the king will be his friend.

Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your defilement and from all your idols.

And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you shall 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 defilements of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

To the pure all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but even their mind and conscience are defiled.

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

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

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, fair, 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 in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently out of a pure heart,

And Jacob called the name of the place Penuel: For I have seen God face to face, and my soul is delivered.

and after my skin has been struck off from my flesh, I shall see God:

Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not a stranger. O how my reins have been exhausted within me!

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

Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will 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 is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.

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