And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

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

A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God; I will seek You earnestly; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You, as in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;

My soul longs, yea, even faints for the courts of Jehovah; my heart and my flesh shout for joy to the living God.

Therefore remove vexation from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for childhood and prime of life are vanity.

then the dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God who gave it.

then the dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God who gave it.

And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. And I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

that you have brought strangers, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in My sanctuary, to profane it, even My house, when you offer My bread, the fat and the blood. And they have broken My covenant because of all your abominations.

So says the Lord Jehovah: No son of an alien, uncircumcised of heart and uncircumcised of flesh, shall enter into My sanctuary, or any son of an alien among the sons of Israel.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies;

And looking earnestly on the sanhedrin, Paul said, Men, brothers, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.

And in this I exercise myself, always to have a blameless conscience toward God and men.

who show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and the thoughts between one another accusing or even excusing one another,

but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin being in my members. O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? read more. I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then with the mind I myself serve the Law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.

I tell the truth in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit,

For because of this you also pay taxes. For they are God's servants, always giving attention to this very thing.

For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful. What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will also pray with the mind; I will sing with the spirit, and I will also sing with the mind.

it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

giving thanks to the Father, who has made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light.

For you died, and your life has been hidden with Christ in God.

Continue in prayer and watch in it with thanksgiving,

but revealed His Word in its own times in a proclamation, with which I was entrusted by the command of God our Savior,)

For this cause I left you in Crete, that you should set in order the things that are lacking and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed you,

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.

But avoid foolish questions and genealogies and contentions, and strivings about the Law, for they are unprofitable and vain.

For it was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices that could not make him who did the service perfect as regards the conscience,

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?

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.

Pray for us; for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.