Psalms 24:4

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The one whose deeds are blameless and whose motives are pure, who does not lie, or make promises with no intention of keeping them.

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  • Matt 5:8 : 8 “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
  • Job 17:9 : 9 But the righteous man holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.
  • Ps 51:10 : 10 Create for me a pure heart, O God! Renew a resolute spirit within me!
  • Jas 4:8 : 8 Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and make your hearts pure, you double-minded.
  • Ps 26:6 : 6 I maintain a pure lifestyle, so I can appear before your altar, O LORD,
  • Isa 33:15-16 : 15 The one who lives uprightly and speaks honestly; the one who refuses to profit from oppressive measures and rejects a bribe; the one who does not plot violent crimes and does not seek to harm others– 16 This is the person who will live in a secure place; he will find safety in the rocky, mountain strongholds; he will have food and a constant supply of water.
  • Ps 73:1 : 1 Book 3(Psalms 73-89) A psalm by Asaph. Certainly God is good to Israel, and to those whose motives are pure!
  • 2 Cor 7:1 : 1 Self-Purification Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that could defile the body and the spirit, and thus accomplish holiness out of reverence for God.
  • Ezek 18:6 : 6 does not eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains or pray to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife, does not approach a woman for marital relations during her period,
  • Ezek 18:15 : 15 He does not eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains, does not pray to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife,
  • Acts 15:9 : 9 and he made no distinction between them and us, cleansing their hearts by faith.
  • 1 Tim 2:8 : 8 So I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands without anger or dispute.
  • Ps 143:8 : 8 May I hear about your loyal love in the morning, for I trust in you. Show me the way I should go, because I long for you.
  • Ps 15:4 : 4 He despises a reprobate, but honors the LORD’s loyal followers. He makes firm commitments and does not renege on his promise.
  • Ps 18:20 : 20 The LORD repaid me for my godly deeds; he rewarded my blameless behavior.
  • Isa 1:15-16 : 15 When you spread out your hands in prayer, I look the other way; when you offer your many prayers, I do not listen, because your hands are covered with blood. 16 Wash! Cleanse yourselves! Remove your sinful deeds from my sight. Stop sinning!
  • Gen 6:5 : 5 But the LORD saw that the wickedness of humankind had become great on the earth. Every inclination of the thoughts of their minds was only evil all the time.
  • Deut 4:19 : 19 When you look up to the sky and see the sun, moon, and stars– the whole heavenly creation– you must not be seduced to worship and serve them, for the LORD your God has assigned them to all the people of the world.
  • Job 9:30 : 30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands clean with lye,
  • Jer 4:14 : 14 “Oh people of Jerusalem, purify your hearts from evil so that you may yet be delivered. How long will you continue to harbor up wicked schemes within you?
  • Jer 5:2 : 2 These people make promises in the name of the LORD. But the fact is, what they swear to is really a lie.”
  • Jer 7:9-9 : 9 You steal. You murder. You commit adultery. You lie when you swear on oath. You sacrifice to the god Baal. You pay allegiance to other gods whom you have not previously known. 10 Then you come and stand in my presence in this temple I have claimed as my own and say,“We are safe!” You think you are so safe that you go on doing all those hateful sins!
  • Ps 25:1 : 1 By David. O LORD, I come before you in prayer.
  • Prov 20:9 : 9 Who can say,“I have kept my heart clean; I am pure from my sin”?
  • Rev 21:1-4 : 1 A New Heaven and a New Earth Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and earth had ceased to exist, and the sea existed no more. 2 And I saw the holy city– the new Jerusalem– descending out of heaven from God, made ready like a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying:“Look! The residence of God is among human beings. He will live among them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them. 4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death will not exist any more– or mourning, or crying, or pain, for the former things have ceased to exist.”
  • Rev 21:27 : 27 but nothing ritually unclean will ever enter into it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or practices falsehood, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
  • Rev 22:14-15 : 14 Blessed are those who wash their robes so they can have access to the tree of life and can enter into the city by the gates. 15 Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the sexually immoral, and the murderers, and the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood!
  • Zech 5:3-4 : 3 The speaker went on to say,“This is a curse traveling across the whole earth. For example, according to the curse whoever steals will be removed from the community; or on the other hand(according to the curse) whoever swears falsely will suffer the same fate.” 4 “I will send it out,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“and it will enter the house of the thief and of the person who swears falsely in my name. It will land in the middle of his house and destroy both timber and stones.”
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 “I will come to you in judgment. I will be quick to testify against those who practice divination, those who commit adultery, those who break promises, and those who exploit workers, widows, and orphans, who refuse to help the resident foreigner and in this way show they do not fear me,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.
  • 1 Tim 1:10 : 10 sexually immoral people, practicing homosexuals, kidnappers, liars, perjurers– in fact, for any who live contrary to sound teaching.
  • Acts 14:15 : 15 “Men, why are you doing these things? We too are men, with human natures just like you! We are proclaiming the good news to you, so that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them.

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  • 3 Who is allowed to ascend the mountain of the LORD? Who may go up to his holy dwelling place?

  • Ps 15:1-2
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    1 A psalm of David. LORD, who may be a guest in your home? Who may live on your holy hill?

    2 Whoever lives a blameless life, does what is right, and speaks honestly.

  • 5 Such godly people are rewarded by the LORD, and vindicated by the God who delivers them.

  • 13 I concluded,“Surely in vain I have kept my motives pure and maintained a pure lifestyle.

  • Job 17:8-9
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    8 Upright men are appalled at this; the innocent man is troubled with the godless.

    9 But the righteous man holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.

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

  • 15 The one who lives uprightly and speaks honestly; the one who refuses to profit from oppressive measures and rejects a bribe; the one who does not plot violent crimes and does not seek to harm others–

  • 30 he will deliver even someone who is not innocent, who will escape through the cleanness of your hands.”

  • 6 I maintain a pure lifestyle, so I can appear before your altar, O LORD,

  • 4 Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean? No one!

  • 8 who speak lies, and make false promises.

  • 4 How blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD and does not seek help from the proud or from liars!

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    4 He despises a reprobate, but honors the LORD’s loyal followers. He makes firm commitments and does not renege on his promise.

    5 He does not charge interest when he lends his money. He does not take bribes to testify against the innocent. The one who lives like this will never be shaken.

  • 2 How blessed is the one whose wrongdoing the LORD does not punish, in whose spirit there is no deceit.

  • 4 Do good, O LORD, to those who are good, to the morally upright!

  • 4 For you have said,‘My teaching is flawless, and I am pure in your sight.’

  • 8 “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

  • 8 Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and make your hearts pure, you double-minded.

  • 17 although there is no violence in my hands and my prayer is pure.

  • 1 Book 3(Psalms 73-89) A psalm by Asaph. Certainly God is good to Israel, and to those whose motives are pure!

  • 24 The LORD rewarded me for my godly deeds; he took notice of my blameless behavior.

  • Job 11:13-14
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    13 “As for you, if you prove faithful, and if you stretch out your hands toward him,

    14 if iniquity is in your hand– put it far away, and do not let evil reside in your tents.

  • 12 There is a generation who are pure in their own opinion and yet are not washed from their filthiness.

  • 11 The one who loves a pure heart and whose speech is gracious– the king will be his friend.

  • 3 For your hands are stained with blood and your fingers with sin; your lips speak lies, your tongue utters malicious words.

  • 4 They replied,“You have not wronged us or oppressed us. You have not taken anything from the hand of anyone.”

  • 19 everyone who has determined to follow God, the LORD God of his ancestors, even if he is not ceremonially clean according to the standards of the temple.”

  • 2 The people who do this will be blessed, the people who commit themselves to obedience, who observe the Sabbath and do not defile it, who refrain from doing anything that is wrong.

  • 15 He does not eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains, does not pray to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife,

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    3 O LORD my God, if I have done what they say, or am guilty of unjust actions,

  • Ezek 18:6-7
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    6 does not eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains or pray to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife, does not approach a woman for marital relations during her period,

    7 does not oppress anyone, but gives the debtor back whatever was given in pledge, does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and clothes the naked,

  • 7 If my footsteps have strayed from the way, if my heart has gone after my eyes, or if anything has defiled my hands,

  • 15 If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,

  • 9 ‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean and have no iniquity.

  • 7 Deceitful people will not live in my palace. Liars will not be welcome in my presence.

  • 4 my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will whisper no deceit.

  • 15 All is pure to those who are pure. But to those who are corrupt and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their minds and consciences are corrupted.

  • 3 You have scrutinized my inner motives; you have examined me during the night. You have carefully evaluated me, but you find no sin. I am determined I will say nothing sinful.

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    3 Realize that the LORD shows the godly special favor; the LORD responds when I cry out to him.

  • 4 I do not associate with deceitful men, or consort with those who are dishonest.

  • 41 Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven:

  • 30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands clean with lye,

  • 2 Lift your hands toward the sanctuary and praise the LORD!

  • 3 And everyone who has this hope focused on him purifies himself, just as Jesus is pure).

  • 24 I was blameless before him; I kept myself from sinning.