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 children of God.

Before God

Blessed are

Pure in Heart

Hebrews 12:14

Embrace peace with all men, and holiness; without the which, no man shall see the Lord.

Psalm 24:4

Even he that hath clean hands, and a pure heart, and that hath not lift up his mind unto vanity, nor sworn to deceive his neighbour.

Acts 15:9

And he put no difference between them and us, but with faith purified their hearts.

Revelation 22:4

And they shall see his face, and his name shall be in their foreheads.

1 Corinthians 13:12

Now we see in a glass, even in a dark speaking: but then shall we see face to face. Now I know unperfectly: but then shall I know even as I am known.

1 Peter 1:22

And forasmuch as ye have purified your souls through the spirit, in obeying the truth for to love brotherly without feigning, see that ye love one another with a pure heart, fervently:

1 John 3:2-3

Dearly beloved, now are we the sons of God, and yet it doth not appear what we shall be. But we know that when it shall appear, we shall be like him. For we shall see him as he is.

Genesis 32:30

And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, "for I have seen God face to face, and yet is my life reserved."

1 Chronicles 29:17-19

I know my God, that thou provest the heart and hast pleasure in plainness. And in plainness of mine heart I have willingly given all this. And now I see thy people, which are here in gladness to offer willingly to thee.

Job 19:26-27

that I shall be clothed again with this skin, and see God in my flesh.

Psalm 15:2

Even he that leadeth an uncorrupt life, and doeth the thing which is right, and speaketh the truth from his heart.

Psalm 18:26

With the clean thou shalt be clean, and with the froward thou shalt be froward. {TYNDALE: With the pure thou shalt be pure, and with the froward thou shalt be froward also.}

Psalm 51:6

But lo, thou hast a pleasure in the truth, and hast showed me secret wisdom.

Psalm 51:10

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

Psalm 73:1

{A Psalm of Asaph} Truly God is loving unto Israel, even unto such as are of a clean heart.

Proverbs 22:11

Whoso delighteth to be of a clean heart and of gracious lips, the king shall be his friend.

Ezekiel 36:25-27

And I will pour pure water upon you, and ye shall be cleansed from all uncleanness, and from all your idols. I will cleanse you.

Matthew 23:25-28

Woe be to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye which make clean the outer side of the cup, and of the platter: but within they are full of bribery and excess.

2 Corinthians 7:1

Seeing that we have such promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, and grow up to full holiness in the fear of God.

Titus 1:15

Unto the pure, are all things pure: but unto them that are defiled, and unbelieving, is nothing pure: but even the very minds and consciences of them are defiled.

Hebrews 9:14

How much more shall the blood of Christ - which through the eternal spirit, offered himself without spot to God - purge your consciences from dead works, for to serve the living God?

Hebrews 10:22

let us draw nigh with a true heart in a full faith sprinkled in our hearts, from an evil conscience, and washed in our bodies with pure water,

James 3:17

but the wisdom that is from above, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without judging, and without simulation.

James 4:8

Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands ye sinners, and purge your hearts ye wavering minded.