Matthew 5:8

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Summary

Matthew 5:8

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

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1 John 3:2

Bible References

Are

I know, my God, that you test the heart and have pleasure in uprightness. In the uprightness of my heart I have freely offered all these things, and now I have seen your people, who are present here, offering freely and joyously to you.

He who walks blamelessly and does what is right and speaks truth in his heart;

with the purified you show yourself pure; and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous.

He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully.

Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.

Truly God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.

He who loves purity of heart, and whose speech is gracious, will have the king as his friend.

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

and he made no distinction between us and them, having cleansed their hearts by faith.

Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.

To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

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

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,

For

So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, "For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered."

And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God,

For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.

Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.