Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.
Way
But
General references
Bible References
Way
Genesis 6:5
And when the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was increased upon the earth, and that all the imagination and thoughts of his heart was only evil continually,
Job 15:14
What is man, that he should be clean? What hath he, which is born of a woman, whereby he might be known to be righteous?
Psalm 14:2
The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that would understand and seek after God.
Ecclesiastes 7:29
Lo, this only have I found, that God made man just and right, but they seek divers subtleties.
Ecclesiastes 9:3
Among all things that come to pass under the Sun, this is a mystery, that it happeneth unto all alike. This is the cause also that the hearts of men are full of wickedness, and mad foolishness is in their hearts, as long as they live, until they die.
1 Corinthians 3:3
For ye are yet carnal. As long verily as there is among you envying, strife and dissension: are ye not carnal, and walk after the manner of men?
Ephesians 2:2
in the which, in time past, ye walked, according to the course of this world, and after the governor that ruleth in the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of unbelief,
Titus 3:3
For we ourselves also were in times past, unwise, disobedient, deceived, in danger to lusts, and to divers manners of voluptuousness, living in maliciousness and envy, full of hate, hating one another.
But
Proverbs 15:26
The LORD abhorreth the imaginations of the wicked; but pure words are pleasant to him.
Proverbs 30:12
The generation that think themselves clean, shall not be cleansed from their filthiness.
Daniel 12:10
and many shall be purified, cleansed and tried. But the ungodly shall live wickedly, and those wicked, as many as they be, shall have no understanding. As for such as have understanding, they shall regard it.
Matthew 5:8
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
Matthew 12:33
Either make the tree good, and his fruit good also, or else make the tree evil, and his fruit evil also. For the tree is known by his fruit.
Acts 15:9
And he put no difference between them and us, but with faith purified their hearts.
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.
Titus 2:14
which gave himself for us, to redeem us from all unrighteousness, and to purge us a peculiar people unto himself, fervently given unto good works.
Titus 3:5
not of the deeds of righteousness which we wrought, but of his mercy, he saved us, by the fountain of the new birth, and with the renewing of the holy ghost,
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 2:29
If ye know that he is righteous, know also that all that work righteousness, are born of him.
1 John 3:3
And every man that hath this hope in him, purgeth himself, even as he is pure.
General references
Proverbs 20:11
A child is known by his conversation, whether his works be pure and right.
Isaiah 55:8
For thus sayeth the LORD: My thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways.