Purity of Heart
30 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
- Psalm 12:6 The words of the LORD are flawless, like silver refined in a furnace, like gold purified sevenfold.
- Psalm 19:8 The precepts of the LORD are right, bringing joy to the heart; the commandments of the LORD are radiant, giving light to the eyes.
- Psalm 24:3–5 Who may ascend the hill of the LORD? Who may stand in His holy place? …
- Psalm 51:7 Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
- Psalm 65:3 When iniquities prevail against me, You atone for our transgressions.
- Psalm 119:140 Your promise is completely pure; therefore Your servant loves it.
- Proverbs 15:26 The LORD detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the words of the pure are pleasant to Him.
- Proverbs 20:9 Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure; I am cleansed from my sin”?
- Proverbs 21:8 The way of a guilty man is crooked, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.
- Proverbs 30:12 There is a generation of those who are pure in their own eyes and yet unwashed of their filth.
- Isaiah 1:18 “Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.
- Isaiah 1:25 I will turn My hand against you; I will thoroughly purge your dross; I will remove all your impurities.
- Isaiah 6:7 And with it he touched my mouth and said: “Now that this has touched your lips, your iniquity is removed and your sin is atoned for.”
- Daniel 12:10 Many will be purified, made spotless, and refined, but the wicked will continue to act wickedly. None of the wicked will understand, but the wise will understand.
- Micah 6:11 Can I excuse dishonest scales or bags of false weights?
- Malachi 3:2–3 But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He will be like a refiner’s fire, like a launderer’s soap. …
- Matthew 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
- John 15:2 He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful.
- Philippians 4:8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable — if anything is excellent or praiseworthy — think on these things.
- 1 Timothy 1:5 The goal of our instruction is the love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith.
- 1 Timothy 3:9 They must hold to the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience.
- 1 Timothy 5:22 Do not be too quick in the laying on of hands and thereby share in the sins of others. Keep yourself pure.
- 2 Timothy 1:3 I thank God, whom I serve with a clear conscience as did my forefathers, as I constantly remember you night and day in my prayers.
- 2 Timothy 2:21–22 So if anyone cleanses himself of what is unfit, he will be a vessel for honor: sanctified, useful to the Master, and prepared for every good work. …
- Titus 1:15 To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled.
- Hebrews 9:13–14 For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that their bodies are clean, …
- Hebrews 10:2 If it could, would not the offerings have ceased? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt the guilt of their sins.
- James 4:8 Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
- 1 Peter 1:22 Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.
- 1 John 3:3 And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as Christ is pure.
Related topics
Refining of the Corrective Judgments of God
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.