Verse 8

The way of the guilty is crooked, but the conduct of the pure is upright.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 2:15 : 15 Their paths are crooked, and their ways are devious.
  • Prov 15:26 : 26 The LORD detests the thoughts of the wicked, but gracious words are pure to Him.
  • Prov 30:12 : 12 There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes, yet it is not cleansed from its filth.
  • Eccl 7:29 : 29 This only have I found: God created mankind upright, but they have gone in search of many schemes.
  • Eccl 9:3 : 3 This is the distressing thing about everything that happens under the sun: the same fate befalls all. Moreover, the hearts of humans are full of evil, and madness resides in their hearts during their lives; and after that, they join the dead.
  • Dan 12:10 : 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.
  • Matt 5:8 : 8 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
  • Matt 12:33 : 33 Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for a tree is known by its fruit.
  • Acts 15:9 : 9 He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.
  • 1 Cor 3:3 : 3 For you are still worldly. Since there is jealousy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not worldly and living like mere humans?
  • Eph 2:2-3 : 2 In which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 Among them we all also once lived in the desires of our flesh, carrying out the inclinations of the flesh and of the mind, and we were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
  • Titus 1:15 : 15 To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; rather, both their mind and conscience are defiled.
  • Titus 2:14 : 14 He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify a people for His own possession, who are eager to do good works.
  • Titus 3:3 : 3 For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.
  • Titus 3:5 : 5 He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to His mercy, through the washing of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
  • 1 Pet 1:22-23 : 22 Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart. 23 For you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
  • 1 John 2:29 : 29 If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.
  • 1 John 3:3 : 3 And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.
  • Gen 6:5-6 : 5 The Lord saw how great the wickedness of humanity had become on the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of their heart was only evil continually. 6 The Lord regretted that He had made humanity on the earth, and it deeply grieved Him.
  • Gen 6:12 : 12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all flesh had ruined their way on the earth.
  • Job 15:14-16 : 14 What is man, that he could be pure, or one born of a woman, that he could be righteous? 15 Behold, God puts no trust in His holy ones, and even the heavens are not pure in His sight. 16 How much less is a man, who is detestable and corrupt, one who drinks iniquity like water!
  • Ps 14:2-3 : 2 The LORD looks down from heaven on all humanity to see if there is anyone who understands, anyone who seeks after God. 3 They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt. There is no one who does good, not even one.