Purity

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• Matthew 5:8

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

• Psalms 119:9

  BETH. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.

• 1 Timothy 4:12

  Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

• Hebrews 13:4

  Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

• 1 Corinthians 6:18

  Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

• Psalms 51:10

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

• 1 Thessalonians 4:3–5

  For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

• 1 John 1:9

  If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

• Colossians 3:5

  Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

• Galatians 5:19–21

  Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

• Romans 13:14

  But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

• Philippians 4:8

  Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

• Psalms 24:3–4

  Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

• Ephesians 5:5

  For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

• 1 Thessalonians 4:3–8

  For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God: …

• James 4:8

  Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

• Titus 1:15

  Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.

• Titus 2:12

  Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

• 2 Corinthians 6:17–7:1

  Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

• 1 Timothy 5:22

  Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure.

• Psalms 119:37

  Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.

• 1 Corinthians 6:13

  Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

• Hebrews 13:18

  Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.

• Ephesians 5:3

  But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

• Titus 2:5

  To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

• John 8:34

  Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.

• 1 Corinthians 7:2

  Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

• James 1:27

  Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

• Luke 11:34–35

  The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness. Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.

• Habakkuk 1:13

  Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?

• 1 Corinthians 6:9–10

  Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

• Galatians 2:20

  I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

• Job 31:1

  I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

• Colossians 3:1–25

  If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. …

• 2 Corinthians 6:6

  By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,

• Psalms 73:1

  A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.

• 2 Corinthians 11:2

  For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

• Hebrews 9:14

  How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

• 2 Corinthians 10:3–5

  For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

• Romans 8:7

  Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

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