Matthew 5:8 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

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.

Matthew 5:8 Cross References

Genesis 32:30

So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, “For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved.”

2 Samuel 22:27

with the pure thou dost show thyself pure, and with the crooked thou dost show thyself perverse.

Psalm 15:2

He who walks blamelessly, and does what is right, and speaks truth from his heart;

Psalm 18:26

with the pure thou dost show thyself pure; and with the crooked thou dost show thyself perverse.

Psalm 24:4

He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false, and does not swear deceitfully.

Psalm 51:10

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me.

Psalm 51:6

Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.

Psalm 73:1

Truly God is good to the upright, to those who are pure in heart.

Proverbs 22:11

He who loves purity of heart, and whose speech is gracious, will have the king as his friend.

Acts 15:9

and he made no distinction between us and them, but cleansed their hearts by faith.

1 Corinthians 13:12

For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood.

2 Corinthians 7:1

Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, and make holiness perfect in the fear of God.

Titus 1:15

To the pure all things are pure, but to the corrupt and unbelieving nothing is pure; their very minds and consciences are corrupted.

Hebrews 10:22

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

Hebrews 12:14

Strive for peace with all men, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.

Hebrews 9:14

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

James 3:17

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, without uncertainty or insincerity.

James 4:8

Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you men of double mind.

1 Peter 1:22

Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere love of the brethren, love one another earnestly from the heart.

Revelation 22:4

they shall see his face, and his name shall be on their foreheads.