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What does Aslan International Ministry say aboutĀ Being Pure
Matthew 5:8 ESV / 2,188 helpful votes
āBlessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
Psalm 51:10 ESV / 1,925 helpful votes
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 1,592 helpful votes
So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
1 John 3:3 ESV / 1,441 helpful votes
And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.
Psalm 12:6 ESV / 1,338 helpful votes
The words of the Lord are pure words, like silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times.
Philippians 4:8 ESV / 1,337 helpful votes
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 1,332 helpful votes
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
James 1:27 ESV / 1,314 helpful votes
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
1 Peter 1:22 ESV / 1,310 helpful votes
Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,
1 Timothy 1:5 ESV / 1,276 helpful votes
The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 1,070 helpful votes
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.
Titus 1:15 ESV / 1,066 helpful votes
To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled.
1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 ESV / 1,059 helpful votes
For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;
Romans 12:2 ESV / 1,058 helpful votes
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Psalm 119:9 ESV / 975 helpful votes
How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word.
Psalm 73:1 ESV / 964 helpful votes
A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.
2 Corinthians 7:1 ESV / 914 helpful votes
Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.
Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 912 helpful votes
Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.
1 Corinthians 6:13 ESV / 904 helpful votes
āFood is meant for the stomach and the stomach for foodāāand God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
James 4:8 ESV / 884 helpful votes
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Psalm 24:3-4 ESV / 862 helpful votes
Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord? And who shall stand in his holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully.
James 3:17 ESV / 840 helpful votes
But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.
Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 805 helpful votes
Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Psalm 19:8 ESV / 803 helpful votes
The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes;
Hebrews 10:22 ESV / 800 helpful votes
Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
1 Peter 2:11 ESV / 781 helpful votes
Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.
Ephesians 5:3 ESV / 780 helpful votes
But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.
1 John 1:9 ESV / 763 helpful votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Proverbs 16:2 ESV / 763 helpful votes
All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the spirit.
Titus 2:4-5 ESV / 747 helpful votes
And so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.
Romans 13:13-14 ESV / 741 helpful votes
Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.
1 Timothy 5:22 ESV / 729 helpful votes
Do not be hasty in the laying on of hands, nor take part in the sins of others; keep yourself pure.
Titus 2:5 ESV / 728 helpful votes
To be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 719 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ā¦
Proverbs 20:11 ESV / 676 helpful votes
Even a child makes himself known by his acts, by whether his conduct is pure and upright.
Hebrews 12:14 ESV / 655 helpful votes
Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
Psalm 18:30 ESV / 646 helpful votes
This Godāhis way is perfect; the word of the Lord proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.
Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 608 helpful votes
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
1 Timothy 4:12 ESV / 597 helpful votes
Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
John 14:6 ESV / 594 helpful votes
Jesus said to him, āI am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Psalm 24:4-5 ESV / 587 helpful votes
He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully. He will receive blessing from the Lord and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
1 John 3:2 ESV / 566 helpful votes
Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.
Psalm 18:26 ESV / 558 helpful votes
With the purified you show yourself pure; and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous.
1 Thessalonians 4:3 ESV / 547 helpful votes
For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality;
John 3:16 ESV / 547 helpful votes
āFor God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Revelation 19:8 ESV / 541 helpful votes
It was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pureāā for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints.
Matthew 4:4 ESV / 536 helpful votes
But he answered, āIt is written, āāMan shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.āā
Habakkuk 1:13 ESV / 532 helpful votes
You who are of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong, why do you idly look at traitors and remain silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?
Psalm 119:11 ESV / 531 helpful votes
I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
Proverbs 15:26 ESV / 511 helpful votes
The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord, but gracious words are pure.
Psalm 24:4 ESV / 509 helpful votes
He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully.
2 Corinthians 11:2 ESV / 507 helpful votes
For I feel a divine jealousy for you, since I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
Philippians 2:14-16 ESV / 486 helpful votes
Do all things without grumbling or questioning, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.
Philippians 1:9-10 ESV / 486 helpful votes
And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,
Psalm 37:4 ESV / 484 helpful votes
Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
John 16:33 ESV / 482 helpful votes
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.ā
James 3:2 ESV / 481 helpful votes
For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.
2 Corinthians 11:2-3 ESV / 477 helpful votes
For I feel a divine jealousy for you, since I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ. But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
James 4:4 ESV / 459 helpful votes
You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Psalm 119:140 ESV / 457 helpful votes
Your promise is well tried, and your servant loves it.
Romans 12:1 ESV / 455 helpful votes
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
Job 31:1 ESV / 455 helpful votes
āI have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a virgin?
Romans 13:14 ESV / 454 helpful votes
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.
Matthew 23:25-28 ESV / 454 helpful votes
āWoe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside also may be clean. āWoe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people’s bones and all uncleanness. So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
James 4:7 ESV / 453 helpful votes
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Colossians 3:14 ESV / 450 helpful votes
And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
Proverbs 21:8 ESV / 440 helpful votes
The way of the guilty is crooked, but the conduct of the pure is upright.
Psalm 62:1-2 ESV / 427 helpful votes
To the choirmaster: according to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken.
2 Samuel 22:27 ESV / 427 helpful votes
With the purified you deal purely, and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous.
Galatians 5:17 ESV / 418 helpful votes
For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.
Acts 2:38 ESV / 418 helpful votes
And Peter said to them, āRepent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Psalm 51:7 ESV / 415 helpful votes
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Matthew 15:19-20 ESV / 414 helpful votes
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander. These are what defile a person. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone.ā
Leviticus 11:44-45 ESV / 408 helpful votes
For I am the Lord your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls on the ground. For I am the Lord who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.ā
Titus 2:12 ESV / 407 helpful votes
Training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,
Psalm 51:6 ESV / 402 helpful votes
Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.
Hebrews 9:14 ESV / 391 helpful votes
How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
Hebrews 7:26 ESV / 391 helpful votes
For it was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, unstained, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.
Proverbs 23:26 ESV / 381 helpful votes
My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.
Matthew 5:28 ESV / 376 helpful votes
But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Acts 15:9 ESV / 372 helpful votes
And he made no distinction between us and them, having cleansed their hearts by faith.
Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 368 helpful votes
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
Philippians 1:6 ESV / 367 helpful votes
And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
Psalm 119:1 ESV / 366 helpful votes
Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord!
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 364 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
John 8:44 ESV / 359 helpful votes
You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
1 Corinthians 6:15-20 ESV / 358 helpful votes
Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, āThe two will become one flesh.ā But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, ā¦
Romans 8:28 ESV / 353 helpful votes
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 352 helpful votes
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 351 helpful votes
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
2 Samuel 22:31 ESV / 350 helpful votes
This Godāhis way is perfect; the word of the Lord proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.
James 4:7-8 ESV / 347 helpful votes
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Job 15:14 ESV / 346 helpful votes
What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 334 helpful votes
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Romans 6:13 ESV / 330 helpful votes
Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.
Proverbs 5:18-19 ESV / 320 helpful votes
Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.
2 Corinthians 10:5 ESV / 319 helpful votes
We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,
Matthew 24:35 ESV / 294 helpful votes
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
Proverbs 22:11 ESV / 290 helpful votes
He who loves purity of heart, and whose speech is gracious, will have the king as his friend.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 267 helpful votes
āFor God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
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