'Pure' in the Bible

(The gold of that land is pure; pearls and lapis lazuli are also there).

You are to overlay it with pure gold -- both inside and outside you must overlay it, and you are to make a surrounding border of gold over it.

"You are to make an atonement lid of pure gold; its length is to be three feet nine inches, and its width is to be two feet three inches.

You are to overlay it with pure gold, and you are to make a surrounding border of gold for it.

You are to make its plates, its ladles, its pitchers, and its bowls, to be used in pouring out offerings; you are to make them of pure gold.

"You are to make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand is to be made of hammered metal; its base and its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its blossoms are to be from the same piece.

Their buds and their branches will be one piece, all of it one hammered piece of pure gold.

Its trimmers and its trays are to be of pure gold.

About seventy-five pounds of pure gold is to be used for it and for all these utensils.

"You are to command the Israelites that they bring to you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, so that the lamps will burn regularly.

and two braided chains of pure gold, like a cord, and attach the chains to the settings.

"You are to make for the breastpiece braided chains like cords of pure gold,

"You are to make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it the way a seal is engraved: "Holiness to the Lord."

You are to overlay it with pure gold -- its top, its four walls, and its horns -- and make a surrounding border of gold for it.

The Lord said to Moses: "Take spices, gum resin, onycha, galbanum, and pure frankincense of equal amounts

and make it into an incense, a perfume, the work of a perfumer. It is to be finely ground, and pure and sacred.

the table with its utensils, the pure lampstand with all its utensils, the altar of incense,

He overlaid it with pure gold, inside and out, and he made a surrounding border of gold for it.

He made an atonement lid of pure gold; its length was three feet nine inches, and its width was two feet three inches.

He overlaid it with pure gold, and he made a surrounding border of gold for it.

He made the vessels which were on the table out of pure gold, its plates, its ladles, its pitchers, and its bowls, to be used in pouring out offerings.

He made the lampstand of pure gold. He made the lampstand of hammered metal; its base and its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its blossoms were from the same piece.

Their buds and their branches were of one piece; all of it was one hammered piece of pure gold.

He made its seven lamps, its trimmers, and its trays of pure gold.

He made the lampstand and all its accessories with seventy-five pounds of pure gold.

He overlaid it with pure gold -- its top, its four walls, and its horns -- and he made a surrounding border of gold for it.

He made the sacred anointing oil and the pure fragrant incense, the work of a perfumer.

They made for the breastpiece braided chains like cords of pure gold,

They made bells of pure gold and attached the bells between the pomegranates around the hem of the robe between the pomegranates.

They made a plate, the holy diadem, of pure gold and wrote on it an inscription, as on the engravings of a seal, "Holiness to the Lord."

the pure lampstand, its lamps, with the lamps set in order, and all its accessories, and oil for the light;

"Command the Israelites to bring to you pure oil of beaten olives for the light, to make a lamp burn continually.

On the ceremonially pure lampstand he must arrange the lamps before the Lord continually.

and you must set them in two rows, six in a row, on the ceremonially pure table before the Lord.

You must put pure frankincense on each row, and it will become a memorial portion for the bread, a gift to the Lord.

On the other hand, you may slaughter and eat meat as you please when the Lord your God blesses you in all your villages. Both the ritually pure and impure may eat it, whether it is a gazelle or an ibex.

Like you eat the gazelle or ibex, so you may eat these; the ritually impure and pure alike may eat them.

and Solomon supplied Hiram annually with 20,000 cors of wheat as provision for his royal court, as well as 20,000 baths of pure olive oil.

the pure gold lampstands at the entrance to the inner sanctuary (five on the right and five on the left), the gold flower-shaped ornaments, lamps, and tongs,

the pure gold bowls, trimming shears, basins, pans, and censers, and the gold door sockets for the inner sanctuary (the most holy place) and for the doors of the main hall of the temple.

The king made a large throne decorated with ivory and overlaid it with pure gold.

All of King Solomon's cups were made of gold, and all the household items in the Palace of the Lebanon Forest were made of pure gold. There were no silver items, for silver was not considered very valuable in Solomon's time.

The water has been pure to this very day, just as Elisha prophesied.

for the pure gold used for the meat forks, bowls, and jars, for the small gold bowls, including the weight for each bowl, for the small silver bowls, including the weight for each bowl,

I know, my God, that you examine thoughts and are pleased with integrity. With pure motives I contribute all this; and now I look with joy as your people who have gathered here contribute to you.

The porch in front of the main hall was 30 feet long, corresponding to the width of the temple, and its height was 30 feet. He plated the inside with pure gold.

the pure gold lampstands and their lamps which burned as specified at the entrance to the inner sanctuary,

the pure gold flower-shaped ornaments, lamps, and tongs,

the pure gold trimming shears, basins, pans, and censers, and the gold door sockets for the inner sanctuary (the most holy place) and for the doors of the main hall of the temple.

The king made a large throne decorated with ivory and overlaid it with pure gold.

All of King Solomon's cups were made of gold, and all the household items in the Palace of the Lebanon Forest were made of pure gold. There were no silver items, for silver was not considered very valuable in Solomon's time.

He commanded them: "Carry out your duties with respect for the Lord, with honesty, and with pure motives.

No one must enter the Lord's temple except the priests and Levites who are on duty. They may enter because they are ceremonially pure. All the others should carry out their assigned service to the Lord.

The priests and the Levites had purified themselves, every last one, and they all were ceremonially pure. They sacrificed the Passover lamb for all the exiles, for their colleagues the priests, and for themselves.

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And that man was pure and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.

So the Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one like him on the earth, a pure and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil."

Then the Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a pure and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil. And he still holds firmly to his integrity, so that you stirred me up to destroy him without reason."

"Is a mortal man righteous before God? Or a man pure before his Creator?

if you become pure and upright, even now he will rouse himself for you, and will restore your righteous abode.

For you have said, 'My teaching is flawless, and I am pure in your sight.'

What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,

although there is no violence in my hands and my prayer is pure.

How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?

If even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure as far as he is concerned,

The topaz of Cush cannot be compared with it; it cannot be purchased with pure gold.

"If I have put my confidence in gold or said to pure gold, 'You are my security!'

I am pure, without transgression; I am clean and have no iniquity.

The Lord's precepts are fair and make one joyful. The Lord's commands are pure and give insight for life.

They are of greater value than gold, than even a great amount of pure gold; they bring greater delight than honey, than even the sweetest honey from a honeycomb.

The one whose deeds are blameless and whose motives are pure, who does not lie, or make promises with no intention of keeping them.

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

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

Create for me a pure heart, O God! Renew a resolute spirit within me!

A psalm by Asaph. Certainly God is good to Israel, and to those whose motives are pure!

I concluded, "Surely in vain I have kept my motives pure and maintained a pure lifestyle.

David cared for them with pure motives; he led them with skill.

(Bet) How can a young person maintain a pure life? By guarding it according to your instructions!

Your word is absolutely pure, and your servant loves it!

The Lord abhors the plans of the wicked, but pleasant words are pure.

Who can say, "I have kept my heart clean; I am pure from my sin"?

Even a young man is known by his actions, whether his activity is pure and whether it is right.

The way of the guilty person is devious, but as for the pure, his way is upright.

The one who loves a pure heart and whose speech is gracious -- the king will be his friend.

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

His head is like the most pure gold. His hair is curly -- black like a raven.

His legs are like pillars of marble set on bases of pure gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, choice as its cedars.

I will make human beings more scarce than pure gold, and people more scarce than gold from Ophir.

Leave! Leave! Get out of there! Don't touch anything unclean! Get out of it! Stay pure, you who carry the Lord's holy items!

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.

(Alef)Alas! Gold has lost its luster; pure gold loses value. Jewels are scattered on every street corner.

I will sprinkle you with pure water and you will be clean from all your impurities. I will purify you from all your idols.

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.

For from the east to the west my name will be great among the nations. Incense and pure offerings will be offered in my name everywhere, for my name will be great among the nations," says the Lord who rules over all.

"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

Now while Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, reclining at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of costly aromatic oil from pure nard. After breaking open the jar, she poured it on his head.

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

Then Mary took three quarters of a pound of expensive aromatic oil from pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus. She then wiped his feet dry with her hair. (Now the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfumed oil.)

For our reason for confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with pure motives and sincerity which are from God -- not by human wisdom but by the grace of God -- we conducted ourselves in the world, and all the more toward you.

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