Matthew 5:8 - King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

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Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Blessed (happy, enviably fortunate, and spiritually prosperous–possessing the happiness produced by the experience of God's favor and especially conditioned by the revelation of His grace, regardless of their outward conditions) are the pure in heart, for they shall see God! [Ps. 24:3, 4.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

Common English Bible

⁸ “Happy are people who have pure hearts, because they will see God.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ Blessed are the clean of heart: for they shall see God.

English Standard Version 2016

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

Matthew 5:8 Cross References

Genesis 32:30

And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.

2 Samuel 22:27

With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; And with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.

Psalm 15:2

He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.

Psalm 18:26

With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; And with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.

Psalm 24:4

He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; Who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

Psalm 51:10

Create in me a clean heart, O God; And renew a right spirit within me.

Psalm 51:6

Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: And in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

Psalm 73:1

Truly God is good to Israel, Even to such as are of a clean heart.

Proverbs 22:11

He that loveth pureness of heart, For the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.

Acts 15:9

and put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

1 Corinthians 13:12

For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

2 Corinthians 7:1

Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Titus 1:15

Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.

Hebrews 10:22

let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

Hebrews 12:14

Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

Hebrews 9:14

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

James 3:17

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

James 4:8

Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

1 Peter 1:22

Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:

Revelation 22:4

and they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.