Matthew 5:8

The Beatitudes

⁷ Blessed are the merciful! For they shall obtain mercy. ⁸ Blessed are the pure in heart! For they shall see God. ⁹ Blessed are the peacemakers! For they shall be called the sons of God.

Before God

Blessed are

Pure in Heart

Hebrews 12:14

Follow peace with all, and holiness, without which no one shall see the Lord;

Psalm 24:4

He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to vanity, and has not sworn deceitfully.

Acts 15:9

And He put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

Revelation 22:4

And they will see His face, and His name will be in their foreheads.

1 Corinthians 13:12

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

1 Peter 1:22

Purifying your souls in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to unfeigned love of the brothers, love one another fervently out of a pure heart,

1 John 3:2-3

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be. But we know that when He shall be revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.

Genesis 32:30

And Jacob called the name of the place Face of God; for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.

1 Chronicles 29:17-19

I know also, my God, that You try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. I, in the uprightness of my heart, have willingly offered all these things. And now I have seen with joy Your people who are present here to offer willingly to You.

Job 19:26-27

and even after they corrupt my skin, yet this: in my flesh I shall see God,

Psalm 15:2

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

Psalm 18:26

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

Psalm 51:6

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

Psalm 51:10

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

Psalm 73:1

A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God is good to Israel, to the pure of heart.

Proverbs 22:11

He who loves pureness of heart, grace is on his lips; the king shall be his friend.

Ezekiel 36:25-27

And I will sprinkle clean waters on you, and you shall be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from your idols.

Matthew 23:25-28

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

2 Corinthians 7:1

Then having these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilements of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Titus 1:15

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

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?

Hebrews 10:22

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

James 3:17

But the wisdom that is from above is first truly pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.

James 4:8

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