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Proverbs 8:13
To fear the LORD is to hate evil. I hate arrogant pride, evil conduct, and perverse speech.
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1 Thessalonians 4 7
For God has not called us to impurity but to live in holiness.
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1 Peter 2 11
Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and exiles to abstain from sinful desires that wage war against the soul.
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James 4:8
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
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Psalms 51:10
God, create a clean heart for me and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
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1 John 3 3
And everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself just as he is pure.
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Ezekiel 36:25-26
I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
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1 Thessalonians 5 23
Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. And may your whole spirit, soul, and body be kept sound and blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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2 Peter 1 4-2 Peter 1 8
By these he has given us very great and precious promises, so that through them you may share in the divine nature, escaping the corruption that is in the world because of evil desire.For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge,knowledge with self-control, self-control with endurance, endurance with godliness,godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being useless or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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1 Peter 1 22
Since you have purified yourselves by your obedience to the truth, so that you show sincere brotherly love for each other, from a pure heart love one another constantly,
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2 Corinthians 6 17-2 Corinthians 6 18
Therefore, come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord; do not touch any unclean thing, and I will welcome you.And I will be a Father to you, and you will be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.
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Philippians 3:12-15
Not that I have already reached the goal or am already perfect, but I make every effort to take hold of it because I also have been taken hold of by Christ Jesus.Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and reaching forward to what is ahead,I pursue as my goal the prize promised by God’s heavenly call in Christ Jesus.Therefore, let all of us who are mature think this way. And if you think differently about anything, God will reveal this also to you.
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Proverbs 16:6
Iniquity is atoned for by loyalty and faithfulness, and one turns from evil by the fear of the LORD.
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Ezekiel 18:30-32
“ Therefore, house of Israel, I will judge each one of you according to his ways.” This is the declaration of the Lord GOD.“ Repent and turn from all your rebellious acts, so they will not become a sinful stumbling block to you.Throw off all the transgressions you have committed, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, house of Israel?For I take no pleasure in anyone’s death.” This is the declaration of the Lord GOD.“ So repent and live!
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Isaiah 55:7
Let the wicked one abandon his way and the sinful one his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, so he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will freely forgive.
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Hebrews 4:1
Therefore, since the promise to enter his rest remains, let us beware that none of you be found to have fallen short.
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Proverbs 30:12
There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes, yet is not washed from its filth.
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1 Thessalonians 3 13
May he make your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints. Amen.
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Luke 11:39-40
But the Lord said to him,“ Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and evil.Fools! Didn’t he who made the outside make the inside too?
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Matthew 5:8
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
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Hebrews 12:28
Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful. By it, we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,
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Psalms 119:9
How can a young man keep his way pure? By keeping your word.
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1 John 1 7
If we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
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Proverbs 20:9
Who can say,“ I have kept my heart pure; I am cleansed from my sin”?
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Acts 9:31
So the church throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace and was strengthened. Living in the fear of the Lord and encouraged by the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers.
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Jeremiah 13:27
Your adulteries and your lustful neighing, your depraved prostitution on the hills, in the fields— I have seen your abhorrent acts. Woe to you, Jerusalem! You are unclean— for how long yet?
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Matthew 12:33
“ Either make the tree good and its fruit will be good, or make the tree bad and its fruit will be bad; for a tree is known by its fruit.
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1 Corinthians 6 20
for you were bought at a price. So glorify God with your body.
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Psalms 19:9
The fear of the LORD is pure, enduring forever; the ordinances of the LORD are reliable and altogether righteous.
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Romans 5:20-6:11
The law came along to multiply the trespass. But where sin multiplied, grace multiplied even moreso that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness, resulting in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.What should we say then? Should we continue in sin so that grace may multiply?Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?Or are you unaware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?Therefore we were buried with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in newness of life.For if we have been united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be in the likeness of his resurrection.For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be rendered powerless so that we may no longer be enslaved to sin,since a person who has died is freed from sin.Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him,because we know that Christ, having been raised from the dead, will not die again. Death no longer rules over him.For the death he died, he died to sin once for all time; but the life he lives, he lives to God.So, you too consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
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Matthew 5:48
Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
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Isaiah 1:16
“ Wash yourselves. Cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from my sight. Stop doing evil.
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Ephesians 2:3
We too all previously lived among them in our fleshly desires, carrying out the inclinations of our flesh and thoughts, and we were by nature children under wrath as the others were also.
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2 Corinthians 1 20
For every one of God’s promises is“ Yes” in him. Therefore, through him we also say“ Amen” to the glory of God.
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Matthew 23:25-26
“ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside of it may also become clean.
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Jeremiah 4:14
Wash the evil from your heart, Jerusalem, so that you will be delivered. How long will you harbor malicious thoughts?
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1 Peter 5 10
The God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, establish, strengthen, and support you after you have suffered a little while.
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2 Chronicles 19 9
He commanded them, saying,“ In the fear of the LORD, with integrity, and wholeheartedly, you are to do the following:
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Titus 2:11-14
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people,instructing us to deny godlessness and worldly lusts and to live in a sensible, righteous, and godly way in the present age,while we wait for the blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ.He gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to cleanse for himself a people for his own possession, eager to do good works.
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1 John 1 9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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Ephesians 4:12-13
to equip the saints for the work of ministry, to build up the body of Christ,until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of God’s Son, growing into maturity with a stature measured by Christ’s fullness.
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Hebrews 12:23
to the assembly of the firstborn whose names have been written in heaven, to a Judge, who is God of all, to the spirits of righteous people made perfect,