'Pure' in the Bible

Gold from that land is pure; bdellium and onyx are also there.

Overlay it with pure gold; overlay it both inside and out. Also make a gold molding all around it.

Make a mercy seat of pure gold, 45 inches long and 27 inches wide.

Overlay it with pure gold and make a gold molding all around it.

You are also to make its plates and cups, as well as its pitchers and bowls for pouring drink offerings. Make them out of pure gold.

“You are to make a lampstand out of pure, hammered gold. It is to be made of one piece: its base and shaft, its ornamental cups, and its calyxes and petals.

Their calyxes and branches are to be of one piece. All of it is to be a single hammered piece of pure gold.

Its snuffers and firepans must be of pure gold.

The lampstand with all these utensils is to be made from 75 pounds of pure gold.

“You are to command the Israelites to bring you pure oil from crushed olives for the light, in order to keep the lamp burning continually.

and two chains of pure gold; you will make them of braided cord work, and attach the cord chains to the settings.

“You are to make braided chains of pure gold cord work for the breastpiece.

“You are to make a pure gold medallion and engrave it, like the engraving of a seal:HOLY TO THE LORD.

Overlay its top, all around its sides, and its horns with pure gold; make a gold molding all around it.

The Lord said to Moses: “Take fragrant spices: stacte, onycha, and galbanum; the spices and pure frankincense are to be in equal measures.

Prepare expertly blended incense from these; it is to be seasoned with salt, pure and holy.

the table with its utensils, the pure gold lampstand with all its utensils, the altar of incense,

He overlaid it with pure gold inside and out and made a gold molding all around it.

He made a mercy seat of pure gold, 45 inches long and 27 inches wide.

He overlaid it with pure gold and made a gold molding all around it.

He also made the utensils that would be on the table out of pure gold: its plates and cups, as well as its bowls and pitchers for pouring drink offerings.

Then he made the lampstand out of pure hammered gold. He made it all of one piece: its base and shaft, its ornamental cups, and its calyxes and petals.

Their calyxes and branches were of one piece. All of it was a single hammered piece of pure gold.

He also made its seven lamps, snuffers, and firepans of pure gold.

He made it and all its utensils of 75 pounds of pure gold.

He overlaid it, its top, all around its sides, and its horns with pure gold. Then he made a gold molding all around it.

He also made the holy anointing oil and the pure, fragrant, and expertly blended incense.

They made braided chains of pure gold cord for the breastpiece.

They made bells of pure gold and attached the bells between the pomegranates, all around the hem of the robe between the pomegranates,

They also made a medallion, the holy diadem, out of pure gold and wrote on it an inscription like the engraving on a seal:HOLY TO THE LORD.

the pure gold lampstand, with its lamps arranged and all its utensils, as well as the oil for the light;

“Command the Israelites to bring you pure oil from crushed olives for the light, in order to keep the lamp burning continually.

He must continually tend the lamps on the pure gold lampstand in the Lord’s presence.

Arrange them in two rows, six to a row, on the pure gold table before the Lord.

Place pure frankincense near each row, so that it may serve as a memorial portion for the bread and a fire offering to the Lord.

But if the woman has not defiled herself and is pure, she will be unaffected and will be able to conceive children.

with the pureYou prove Yourself pure,but with the crookedYou prove Yourself shrewd.

God—His way is perfect;the word of the Lord is pure.He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.

The interior of the sanctuary was 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 30 feet high; he overlaid it with pure gold. He also overlaid the cedar altar.

Next, Solomon overlaid the interior of the temple with pure gold, and he hung gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary and overlaid it with gold.

the pure gold lampstands in front of the inner sanctuary, five on the right and five on the left; the gold flowers, lamps, and tongs;

the pure gold ceremonial bowls, wick trimmers, sprinkling basins, ladles, and firepans; and the gold hinges for the doors of the inner temple (that is, the most holy place) and for the doors of the temple sanctuary.

All of King Solomon’s drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, since it was considered as nothing in Solomon’s time,

the pure gold for the forks, sprinkling basins, and pitchers; the weight of each gold dish; the weight of each silver bowl;

The portico, which was across the front extending across the width of the temple, was 30 feet wide; its height was 30 feet; he overlaid its inner surface with pure gold.

the lampstands and their lamps of pure gold to burn in front of the inner sanctuary according to specifications;

The king also made a large ivory throne and overlaid it with pure gold.

All of King Solomon’s drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, since it was considered as nothing in Solomon’s time,

“Can a person be more righteous than God,or a man more pure than his Maker?”

if you are pure and upright,then He will move even now on your behalfand restore the home where your righteousness dwells.

You have said, “My teaching is sound,and I am pure in Your sight.”

Who can produce something pure from what is impure?No one!

What is man, that he should be pure,or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

If God puts no trust in His holy onesand the heavens are not pure in His sight,

although my hands are free from violenceand my prayer is pure.

Yet He knows the way I have taken;when He has tested me, I will emerge as pure gold.

How can a person be justified before God?How can one born of woman be pure?

If even the moon does not shineand the stars are not pure in His sight,

Topaz from Cush cannot compare with it,and it cannot be valued in pure gold.

“I am pure, without transgression;I am clean and have no guilt.

The words of the Lord are pure words,like silver refined in an earthen furnace,purified seven times.

with the pureYou prove Yourself pure,but with the crookedYou prove Yourself shrewd.

God—His way is perfect;the word of the Lord is pure.He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.

The fear of the Lord is pure,enduring forever;the ordinances of the Lord are reliableand altogether righteous.

They are more desirable than gold—than an abundance of pure gold;and sweeter than honey,which comes from the honeycomb.

For You meet him with rich blessings;You place a crown of pure gold on his head.

The one who has clean hands and a pure heart,who has not set his mind on what is false,and who has not sworn deceitfully.

BOOK III(Psalms 73–89)A psalm of Asaph. God is indeed good to Israel,to the pure in heart.

He shepherded them with a pure heartand guided them with his skillful hands.

ב BetHow can a young man keep his way pure?By keeping Your word.

Your word is completely pure,and Your servant loves it.

Accept my instruction instead of silver,and knowledge rather than pure gold.

My fruit is better than solid gold,and my harvest than pure silver.

The tongue of the righteous is pure silver;the heart of the wicked is of little value.

The Lord detests the plans of an evil man,but pleasant words are pure.

Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure;I am cleansed from my sin”?

Even a young man is known by his actions—if his behavior is pure and upright.

The one who loves a pure heartand gracious lips—the king is his friend.

Every word of God is pure;He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him.

There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes,yet is not washed from its filth.

His legs are alabaster pillarsset on pedestals of pure gold.His presence is like Lebanon,as majestic as the cedars.

ב BetZion’s precious people—once worth their weight in pure gold—how they are regarded as clay jars,the work of a potter’s hands!

Because of the indecency of your uncleanness—since I tried to purify you,but you would not be purified from your uncleanness—you will not be pure againuntil I have satisfied My wrath on you.

The head of the statue was pure gold, its chest and arms were silver, its stomach and thighs were bronze,

Your eyes are too pure to look on evil,and You cannot tolerate wrongdoing.So why do You tolerate those who are treacherous?Why are You silentwhile one who is wicked swallows upone who is more righteous than himself?

For I will then restorepure speech to the peoplesso that all of them may callon the name of Yahwehand serve Him with a single purpose.

“For My name will be great among the nations, from the rising of the sun to its setting. Incense and pure offerings will be presented in My name in every place because My name will be great among the nations,” says Yahweh of Hosts.

The pure in heart are blessed,for they will see God.

While He was in Bethany at the house of Simon who had a serious skin disease, as He was reclining at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of pure and expensive fragrant oil of nard. She broke the jar and poured it on His head.

Then Mary took a pound of fragrant oil—pure and expensive nard—anointed Jesus’ feet, and wiped His feet with her hair. So the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil.

For consider how much diligence this very thing—this grieving as God wills—has produced in you: what a desire to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what deep longing, what zeal, what justice! In every way you showed yourselves to be pure in this matter.

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy, because I have promised you in marriage to one husband—to present a pure virgin to Christ.

But I fear that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your minds may be seduced from a complete and pure devotion to Christ.

so that you can approve the things that are superior and can be pure and blameless in the day of Christ,

so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God who are faultless in a crooked and perverted generation, among whom you shine like stars in the world.

Finally brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable—if there is any moral excellence and if there is any praise—dwell on these things.

Now the goal of our instruction is love that comes from a pure heart, a good conscience, and a sincere faith.

Don’t be too quick to appoint anyone as an elder, and don’t share in the sins of others. Keep yourself pure.

Flee from youthful passions, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

To the pure, everything is pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; in fact, both their mind and conscience are defiled.