Purity

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• OF HEARTPsalms 12:6Psalms 19:8Psalms 24:3–5Psalms 51:7Psalms 65:3Psalms 119:140Proverbs 15:26Proverbs 20:9Proverbs 21:8Proverbs 30:12Isaiah 1:18Isaiah 1:25Isaiah 6:7Daniel 12:10Micah 6:11Malachi 3:2Malachi 3:3Matthew 5:8John 15:2Philippians 4:8
• For the symbolisms of purity
• See Ablutions
• See Color, White
• See Defilement
• See Purification

The passages, in Bible order (33)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Psalms 12:6

   The words of the LORD are flawless, like silver refined in a furnace, like gold purified sevenfold.

   ›Commentary on Psalms 12:61 voice

   “When Israel had left Egypt, God forbade the people to even touch the mountain where he was giving the Law, because they were far from being "on fire" for the Lord. He did, however, call the blessed Moses to that mountain. Moses was totally committed to him and clung to his grace, so God said, "Let Moses alone draw near." So Moses climbed up the mountain into the cloud, and although that mountain smoked with the heat and presence of the Lord, Moses was unharmed.

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2. Psalms 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.

   ›Commentary on Psalms 19:81 voice

   “They are truly right, because he is known to have acted in the same say as he taught. In contrast, those whose words are not consistent with their works show that their version of justice is not right.

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3. Psalms 24:3–5

   Who may ascend the hill of the LORD? Who may stand in His holy place?

   ›Commentary on Psalms 24:3–51 voice

   “Where should you stand, you who seek sanctification from God? The writer says, "You have established my feet on the rock." "Christ was the rock." Let us learn about the one who follows these promises.

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4. Psalms 51:7

   Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

   ›Commentary on Psalms 51:71 voice

   After this white robes were given to you as a sign that you were putting off the covering of sins and putting on the chaste veil of innocence, of which the prophet said, "Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be cleansed; wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow."

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5. Psalms 65:3

   When iniquities prevail against me, You atone for our transgressions.

   ›Commentary on Psalms 65:31 voice

   “Iniquities prevail against me,....

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6. Psalms 119:140

   Your promise is completely pure; therefore Your servant loves it.

   ›Commentary on Psalms 119:1401 voice

   “Do you want me to show you how the fire goes out from the words of the Holy Spirit and ignites the hearts of believers? Hear David speaking in the psalm: "The declaration of the Lord has set him on fire." And again in the Gospel it was written, after the Lord spoke to Cleopas, "Was not our heart burning within us when he opened the Scriptures to us?" Whence will you burn?

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7. Proverbs 15:26

   The LORD detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the words of the pure are pleasant to Him.

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8. Proverbs 20:9

   Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure; I am cleansed from my sin”?

   ›Commentary on Proverbs 20:91 voice

   “The merciful God has provided for the inhabitants of earth repentance as the medicine of salvation. Some endeavor to dispense with repentance, saying of themselves that they are clean. In their great madness they do not understand that to entertain such an idea of themselves is full of all impurity. For "no man is free from defilement," as it is written.

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9. Proverbs 21:8

   The way of a guilty man is crooked, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.

   ›Commentary on Proverbs 21:81 voice

   “The perverse way of a man is foreign, etc. To live justly before the Lord is proper to the human condition. Hence elsewhere it is said, "Fear God, and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man" (Ecclesiasticus 12). But he who …

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10. Proverbs 30:12

    There is a generation of those who are pure in their own eyes and yet unwashed of their filth.

    ›Commentary on Proverbs 30:121 voice

    “A generation that seems pure to itself, etc. Because God scatters the bones of men pleasing to themselves.

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11. 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.

    ›Commentary on Isaiah 1:181 voice

    “[One] who is baptized is seen to be purified both according to the law and according to the gospel. According to the law, because Moses sprinkled the blood of the lamb with a bunch of hyssop; according to the gospel, because Christ's garments were white as snow, when in the gospel he manifested the glory of his resurrection, [one] then whose guilt is remitted is made whiter than snow.

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12. Isaiah 1:25

    I will turn My hand against you; I will thoroughly purge your dross; I will remove all your impurities.

    ›Commentary on Isaiah 1:251 voice

    “(Verse 25) And I will turn my hand against you; and I will thoroughly purge away your dross and take away all your alloy. Regarding the dross, which Symmachus interpreted as 'στέμφυλα' (clusters of grapes), Aquila as 'γιγαρτῶδες' (bunch of grapes), and Theodotion as 'acinum uvae' (grape kernel), the Septuagint alone, translating more the sense than the words, understood it as 'unbelievers' or 'disobedient ones'.

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13. 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.”

    ›Commentary on Isaiah 6:71 voice

    Tell me, then, whoever you are who deny the divinity of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit could not be liable to sin, who rather forgives sin. Does an angel forgive? Does an archangel? Certainly not, but the Father alone, the Son alone and the Holy Spirit alone [can forgive sins]. Now one is obviously able to avoid that which he has power to forgive.But perhaps someone will say that the seraph said to Isaiah, "Behold, this has touched your lips and shall take away your iniquities and purge away your sins."

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14. 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.

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15. Micah 6:11

    Can I excuse dishonest scales or bags of false weights?

    ›Commentary on Micah 6:111 voice

    “(Verse 10 and following). Listen, you who are wise, and who will approve of it? The fire is still burning in the house of the wicked, the treasure of impiety, and the measure of anger is not yet full. Shall I justify the wicked scales and the deceitful weights of the bag? In them, her rich ones are filled with iniquity, and those who dwell in her speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth. And so I have begun to strike you with destruction because of your sins.

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16. Malachi 3:2

    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.

    ›Commentary on Malachi 3:21 voice

    “(Verse 2) Look, says the Lord of Hosts, who can think of the day of his coming? And who will stand to see him? For he will come like a refining fire and like the fullers' soap. LXX: Behold, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts, and who will endure the day of his coming? And who can stand when he appears?

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