The way of a guilty man is crooked, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.
for you are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and dissension among you, are you not worldly? Are you not walkin
The LORD looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if any understand, if any seek God.
whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious.
If you know that He is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.
And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as Christ is pure.
Many will be purified, made spotless, and refined, but the wicked will continue to act wickedly. None of the wicked will
Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his
in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spi
Only this have I found: I have discovered that God made mankind upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”
There is a generation of those who are pure in their own eyes and yet unwashed of their filth.
For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in m
He made no distinction between us and them, for He cleansed their hearts by faith.
Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is known by its fr
What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
This is an evil in everything that is done under the sun: There is one fate for everyone. Furthermore, the hearts of men
And God looked upon the earth and saw that it was corrupt; for all living creatures on the earth had corrupted their way
Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one
He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and re
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and thei
The LORD detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the words of the pure are pleasant to Him.
He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zeal