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

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

A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God [is] good to Israel, To such as are pure in heart.

Who can say, "I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin"?

I have seen your adulteries And your [lustful] neighings, The lewdness of your harlotry, Your abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! Will you still not be made clean?"

'then I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever, for the good of them and their children after them.

"Then I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within them, and take the stony heart out of their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh,

"Cast away from you all the transgressions which you have committed, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why should you die, O house of Israel?

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

"I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will 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 in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart,

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what [is] that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,

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

and have put on the new [man] who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him,

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

And may not be like their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation [that] did not set its heart aright, And whose spirit was not faithful to God.

For their heart was not steadfast with Him, Nor were they faithful in His covenant.

Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he wholly followed the LORD God of Israel.

And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; his heart was not loyal to the LORD his God, as was the heart of his father David.

because David did [what was] right in the eyes of the LORD, and had not turned aside from anything that He commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

When he came and had seen the grace of God, he was glad, and encouraged them all that with purpose of heart they should continue with the Lord.

Therefore, my beloved brethren, 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.