1 Timothy 1:5

Easy To Read Version

The goal of this command is for people to have love. To have this love people must have a pure heart, they must do what they know is right, and they must have true faith.

Cross References

Psalm 24:4

People who have not done evil things,\par people who have pure hearts,\par people who have not used my name {\cf2\super [146]} to make lies sound like the truth,\par and people who have not lied and made false promises.\par \{Only those people can worship there.\}\par

Psalm 51:10

God, create a pure heart in me!\par Make my spirit strong again!\par

Jeremiah 4:14

People of Jerusalem, wash the evil\par from your hearts.\par Make your hearts pure so you can be saved.\par Don’t continue making evil plans.\par

Zephaniah 3:7

I tell you these things so you will learn a lesson. I want you to fear and respect me. If you do this, then your home won’t be destroyed. If you do this, then I won’t have to punish you the way I planned.” But those bad people only wanted to do more of the same bad things they had already done!

Matthew 12:35

A good person has good things saved in his heart. And so he speaks the good things that come from his heart. But an evil person has evil saved in his heart. So he speaks the evil things that come from his heart.

Matthew 5:8

What great blessings there are for the people that are pure in their thinking!\par They will be with God.\par

Acts 15:9

To God, those people are not different from us. When they believed, God made their hearts pure.

Acts 23:1

Paul looked at the Jewish council meeting and said, “Brothers, I have lived my life in a good way before God. I have always done what I thought was right.”

Acts 24:16

This is why I always try to do what I believe is right before God and men.

Romans 10:4

Christ ended the law so that every person that believes in him is made right with God.

Romans 12:9

Your love must be real. Hate the things that are evil. Do only the things that are good.

Romans 14:15

If you hurt your brother’s faith because of something you eat, then you are not really following the way of love. Don’t destroy a person’s faith by eating something \{that he thinks is wrong\}. Christ died for that person.

Romans 9:1

I am in Christ and I am telling you the truth. I don’t lie. My deepest feelings are ruled by the Holy Spirit. {\cf2\super [72]} And those feelings tell me that I am not lying:

1 Corinthians 13:1

I may speak in different languages of men or even angels. But if I don’t have love, then I am only a noisy bell or a ringing cymbal.

2 Corinthians 1:12

This is what we are proud of, and I can say with all my heart that it is true: In all the things we have done in the world, we have done everything with an honest and pure heart from God. And this is even more true in the things we have done with you. We did this by God’s grace (kindness), not by the kind of wisdom the world has.

Galatians 5:22

But the Spirit {\cf2\super [74]} gives love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Galatians 5:6

When a person is in Christ Jesus, it is not important if he is circumcised or not. The important thing is faith—the kind of faith that works through love.

Deuteronomy 10:12

“Now, people of Israel, listen! What does the Lord your God really want from you? The Lord wants you to respect him and do what he says. God wants you to love him and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

1 Timothy 1:18

Timothy, you are \{like\} a son to me. I am giving you a command. This command agrees with the prophecies {\cf2\super [5]} that were told about you in the past. I tell you these things so that you can remember those prophecies and fight the good fight \{of faith\}.

1 Timothy 1:19

Continue to have faith and do what you know is right. Some people have not done this. Their faith has been destroyed.

1 Timothy 3:9

They must follow the faith (truth) that God made known to us and always do what they know is right.

2 Timothy 1:3

I always remember you in my prayers day and night. I thank God for you in those prayers. He is the God my ancestors {\cf2\super [2]} served. I have always served him, doing what I know is right.

2 Timothy 1:5

I remember your true faith. That kind of faith first belonged to your grandmother Lois and to your mother Eunice. I know that you now have that same faith.

2 Timothy 2:22

Stay away from the evil things a young person wants to do. Try very hard to live right and to have faith, love, and peace. Do these things together with those people who have pure hearts and trust in the Lord.

Titus 1:15

To people that are pure, all things are pure. But to people who are full of sin and don’t believe, nothing is pure. Really, those people’s thinking has become evil and their knowledge of what is right has been ruined.

Hebrews 10:22

We have been cleansed and made free from feelings of guilt. And our bodies have been washed with pure water. So come near to God with a sincere (true) heart, feeling sure because of our faith.

Hebrews 13:18

Continue praying for us. We feel right about the things we do, because we always try to do the best thing.

Hebrews 9:14

So surely the blood of Christ can do much, much more. Christ offered himself through the eternal Spirit {\cf2\super [106]} as a perfect sacrifice {\cf2\super [107]} to God. His blood will make us fully clean from the evil things we have done. His blood will make us pure even in our hearts. We are made pure so that we can worship (serve) the living God.

James 4:8

Come near to God and God will come near to you. You are sinners. So clean sin out of your lives. {\cf2\super [23]} You are trying to follow God and the world at the same time. Make your thinking pure.

1 Peter 1:22

Now you have made yourselves pure by obeying the truth. Now you can have true love for your brothers and sisters. So love each other deeply—with all your heart.

1 Peter 3:16

But answer those people in a gentle way with respect. Always be able to feel that you are doing right. When you do that, the people who say bad things about you will be made ashamed. They say these bad things about the good way you live in Christ. They will be made ashamed for the bad things they said about you.

1 Peter 3:21

That water is like baptism {\cf2\super [26]} that now saves you. Baptism is not the washing of dirt from the body. Baptism is asking God for a pure heart. It saves you because Jesus Christ was raised from death.

1 Peter 4:8

Most important, love each other deeply. Love hides many, many sins.

2 Peter 1:7

and to your service for God add kindness for your brothers and sisters \{in Christ\}; and to this kindness for your brothers and sisters add love.

1 John 3:10

So we can see who God’s children are. Also, we can know who the children of the devil are. The people who don’t do what is right are not children of God. And the person who does not love his brothers and sisters \{in Christ\} is not a child of God.

1 John 3:23

This is what God commands: that we believe in his Son Jesus Christ and that we love each other. This is what he commanded.

1 John 3:3

Christ is pure. And every person who has this hope in Christ keeps himself pure like Christ.