'Pure' in the Bible

I maintain a pure lifestyle, so I can appear before your altar, O Lord,

Daughters of kings are among thy precious ones, A queen hath stood at thy right hand, In pure gold of Ophir.

Wash me thoroughly from my wickedness and guiltAnd cleanse me from my sin.

Against Thee, Thee only, I have sinned, And done the evil thing in Thine eyes, So that Thou art righteous in Thy words, Thou art pure in Thy judging.

Sprinkle me with water and I will be pure; wash me and I will be whiter than snow.

God, create a pure heart in me, and renew a right attitude within me.

BOOK III(Psalms 73–89)A psalm of Asaph. God is indeed good to Israel,to the pure in heart.

I kept my heart pure for nothing and kept my hands clean from guilt.

He shepherded them with a pure heartand guided them with his skillful hands.

Righteousness will be restored with justice, and all the pure of heart will follow it.

ב BetHow can a young man keep his way pure?By keeping Your word.

Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, yes, more than pure gold.

Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.

Drink water from your own cistern [of a pure marriage relationship]And fresh running water from your own well.

Accept my instruction instead of silver,and knowledge rather than pure gold.

My fruit is better than solid gold,and my harvest than pure silver.

The tongue of the righteous is pure silver;the heart of the wicked is of little value.

The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.

Everything a person does seems pure in his own opinion, but the LORD weighs intentions.

When the wicked man comes [to the depth of evil], contempt [of all that is pure and good] also comes,And with inner baseness (dishonor) comes outer shame (scorn).

The words of a man’s mouth are like deep waters [copious and difficult to fathom];The fountain of [mature, godly] wisdom is like a bubbling stream [sparkling, fresh, pure, and life-giving].

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.

The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.

The one who loves a pure heartand gracious lips—the king is his friend.

Like a gold earring and a necklace of pure gold is a wise reprover to a listening ear.

Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.

There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.

She makes for herself coverlets, cushions, and rugs of tapestry.Her clothing is linen, pure and fine, and purple [wool].

His head is pure gold, his hair is wavy, black like a raven.

His legs are alabaster pillarsset on pedestals of pure gold.His presence is like Lebanon,as majestic as the cedars.

but my dove, my perfect one, is unique. She's unique to her mother, she's pure to the one who gave birth to her. Young women see her and call her blessed, queens and mistresses praise her.

‘Who is this that grows like the dawn,As beautiful as the full moon,As pure as the sun,As awesome as an army with banners?’

Wash ye, make ye pure, Turn aside the evil of your doings, from before Mine eyes, Cease to do evil, learn to do good.

I'll make people scarcer than pure gold, and mankind rarer than gold from Ophir.

In that day there shall be a vineyard of pure wine; sing concerning it:

“Rain down, O heavens, from above,Let the clouds pour down righteousness [all the blessings of God];Let the earth open up, let salvation bear fruit,And righteousness spring up with it;I, the Lord, have created it.

Turn aside, turn aside, go out thence, The unclean touch not, go out from her midst, Be ye pure, who are bearing the weapons of Jehovah.

They will bring back all your countrymen from all the nations as an offering to the Lord. They will bring them on horses, in chariots, in wagons, on mules, and on camels to my holy hill Jerusalem," says the Lord, "just as the Israelites bring offerings to the Lord's temple in ritually pure containers.

“Yet I had planted you [O house of Israel as] a choice vine,A completely faithful seed.How then have you turned against MeInto degenerate shoots of a foreign and wild vine [alien to Me]?

How is the gold become dim, Changed the best -- the pure gold? Poured out are stones of the sanctuary At the head of all out-places.

ב BetZion’s precious people—once worth their weight in pure gold—how they are regarded as clay jars,the work of a potter’s hands!

Because of the indecency of your uncleanness—since I tried to purify you,but you would not be purified from your uncleanness—you will not be pure againuntil I have satisfied My wrath on you.

I'll sprinkle pure water on you all, and you'll be cleansed from your impurity and from all of your idols."

The head of the statue was pure gold, its chest and arms were silver, its stomach and thighs were bronze,

I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.

and I lift up mine eyes, and look, and lo, a certain one clothed in linen, and his loins girt with pure gold of Uphaz,

Some of those who have insight will fall, in order to refine, purge and make them pure until the end time; because it is still to come at the appointed time.

Your calf, Samaria, has been thrown away. My anger is burning against them. How long until they become pure again?

And full have been the floors with pure corn, And overflown have the presses with new wine and oil.

Saying, When doth the new moon pass, And we sell ground corn? And the sabbath, and we open out pure corn? To make little the ephah, And to make great the shekel, And to use perversely balances of deceit.

To purchase with money the poor, And the needy for a pair of sandals, Yea, the refuse of the pure corn we sell.

Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?

Your eyes are too pure to look on evil,and You cannot tolerate wrongdoing.So why do You tolerate those who are treacherous?Why are You silentwhile one who is wicked swallows upone who is more righteous than himself?

For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.

Then I said, "Let them place a pure diadem on his head." So they placed the pure diadem on his head and clothed him with fine garments while the angel of the LORD was standing beside them.

He asked me, "What do you see?" I replied, "I see a menorah of pure gold with a receptacle at the top and seven lamps, with fourteen pipes going to the lamps.

"Tyre built itself a fortification, hoarding silver like dust and pure gold like mud in a street.

For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.

For the lips of the priest should guard and preserve knowledge [of My law], and the people should seek instruction from his mouth; for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.

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

While He was in Bethany at the house of Simon who had a serious skin disease, as He was reclining at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of pure and expensive fragrant oil of nard. She broke the jar and poured it on His head.

Then the angel replied to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you [like a cloud]; for that reason the holy (pure, sinless) Child shall be called the Son of God.

But these words seemed like pure nonsense to them, and they did not believe them.

Then Mary took a pound of fragrant oil—pure and expensive nard—anointed Jesus’ feet, and wiped His feet with her hair. So the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil.

But you disowned and denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for [the pardon of] a murderer to be granted to you.

But as they opposed and spoke injuriously, he shook his clothes, and said to them, Your blood be upon your own head: I am pure; from henceforth I will go to the nations.

Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.

All depends on faith, and for this reason--that acceptance with God might be an act of pure grace,

For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.

But it is from Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God [revealing His plan of salvation], and righteousness [making us acceptable to God], and sanctification [making us holy and setting us apart for God], and redemption [providing our ransom from the penalty for sin],

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified [that is, he receives the blessings granted] through his [Christian] wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be [ceremonially] unclean, but as it is they are holy.

For this is what we boast about: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world with pure motives and godly sincerity, without earthly wisdom but with God's grace especially toward you.

For we are not like the majority who peddle the word of God, but as from pure motives--but as from God--we speak before God in Christ.

For consider how much diligence this very thing—this grieving as God wills—has produced in you: what a desire to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what deep longing, what zeal, what justice! In every way you showed yourselves to be pure in this matter.

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy, because I have promised you in marriage to one husband—to present a pure virgin to Christ.

But I fear that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your minds may be seduced from a complete and pure devotion to Christ.

What I say in this confident boasting, I say not as the Lord would [with His authority], but foolishly.

so that you can approve the things that are superior and can be pure and blameless in the day of Christ,

the former proclaim Christ out of selfish ambition rather than from pure motives, thinking to cause me distress in my imprisonment.

so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God who are faultless in a crooked and perverted generation, among whom you shine like stars in the world.

Nay, I even reckon all things as pure loss because of the priceless privilege of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. And for His sake I have suffered the loss of everything, and reckon it all as mere refuse, in order that I may win Christ and be found in union with Him,

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

You and God are witnesses of how pure, honest, and blameless our conduct was among you who believe.

so that He may strengthen and establish your hearts without blame in holiness in the sight of our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints (God’s people).

For this is the will of God, that you be sanctified [separated and set apart from sin]: that you abstain and back away from sexual immorality;

So whoever rejects and disregards this is not [merely] rejecting man but the God who gives His Holy Spirit to you [to dwell in you and empower you to overcome temptation].

Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you through and through [that is, separate you from profane and vulgar things, make you pure and whole and undamaged—consecrated to Him—set apart for His purpose]; and may your spirit and soul and body be kept complete and [be found] blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:

Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure.

I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day;

Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.

They should school the young women to be affectionate to their husbands and to their children, to be sober-minded, pure in their lives,

to be self-controlled, pure, homemakers, kind, and submissive to their husbands, so that God’s message will not be slandered.

We need such a high priest one who is holy, innocent, pure, set apart from sinners, exalted above the heavens.

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

Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you are involved in various trials,

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.