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Have A Clean Heart

Blessed are the pure in heart, For they shall see God.
Matthew 5:8 (NKJV)

Gr καθαρότης (katharotēs), cleanness; purity.
Heb  בָרֵ֥י ba-re beloved; also pure, empty:—choice, clean, clear, pure.

A Pure Heart Comes From God

    Who can say, “I have made my heart clean,
    I am pure from my sin”?
Proverbs 20:9 (NKJV)

    Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;
    Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
    Make me hear joy and gladness,
    That the bones You have broken may rejoice.
    Hide Your face from my sins,
    And blot out all my iniquities.

    Create in me a clean heart, O God,
    And renew a steadfast spirit within me.
    Do not cast me away from Your presence,
    And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.
Psalm 51:7–11 (NKJV)

 A Pure Heart Is Required For Worship

    Who may ascend into the hill of the LORD?
    Or who may stand in His holy place?
    He who has clean hands and a pure heart,
    Who has not lifted up his soul to an idol,
    Nor sworn deceitfully.
    He shall receive blessing from the LORD,
    And righteousness from the God of his salvation.
    This is Jacob, the generation of those who seek Him,
    Who seek Your face.
Selah
Psalm 24:3–6 (NKJV)

A Pure Heart Is Manifest In Love

Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart, having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever, because

    “All flesh is as grass,
    And all the glory of man as the flower of the grass.
    The grass withers,
    And its flower falls away,
    But the word of the LORD endures forever.”

Now this is the word which by the gospel was preached to you.

Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking, as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby, if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
1 Peter 1:22–2:3 (NKJV)

A Pure Heart Does Not Envy But Trusts In the Lord

Psalm 73
A Psalm of Asaph.

    Truly God is good to Israel,
    To such as are pure in heart.
    But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled;
    My steps had nearly slipped.
    For I was envious of the boastful,
    When I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

    For there are no pangs in their death,
    But their strength is firm.
    They are not in trouble as other men,
    Nor are they plagued like other men.
    Therefore pride serves as their necklace;
    Violence covers them like a garment.
    Their eyes bulge with abundance;
    They have more than heart could wish.
    They scoff and speak wickedly concerning oppression;
    They speak loftily.
    They set their mouth against the heavens,
    And their tongue walks through the earth.

    Therefore his people return here,
    And waters of a full cup are drained by them.
    And they say, “How does God know?
    And is there knowledge in the Most High?”
    Behold, these are the ungodly,
    Who are always at ease;
    They increase in riches.
    Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain,
    And washed my hands in innocence.
    For all day long I have been plagued,
    And chastened every morning.

    If I had said, “I will speak thus,”
    Behold, I would have been untrue to the generation of Your children.
    When I thought how to understand this,
    It was too painful for me—
    Until I went into the sanctuary of God;
    Then I understood their end.

    Surely You set them in slippery places;
    You cast them down to destruction.
    Oh, how they are brought to desolation, as in a moment!
    They are utterly consumed with terrors.
    As a dream when one awakes,
    So, Lord, when You awake,
    You shall despise their image.

    Thus my heart was grieved,
    And I was vexed in my mind.
    I was so foolish and ignorant;
    I was like a beast before You.
    Nevertheless I am continually with You;
    You hold me by my right hand.
    You will guide me with Your counsel,
    And afterward receive me to glory.

    Whom have I in heaven but You?
    And there is none upon earth that I desire besides You.
    My flesh and my heart fail;
    But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
    For indeed, those who are far from You shall perish;
    You have destroyed all those who desert You for harlotry.
    But it is good for me to draw near to God;
    I have put my trust in the Lord GOD,
    That I may declare all Your works.