1 John 3:3

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

He is pure, and everyone who has this hope in him keeps themselves pure like Christ.

Cross References

2 Corinthians 7:1

Dear friends, we have these promises from God. So we should make ourselves pure—free from anything that makes our body or our soul unclean. Our respect for God should make us try to be completely holy in the way we live.

1 John 2:6

If we say we live in God, we must live the way Jesus lived.

2 Peter 3:14

Dear friends, we are waiting for this to happen. So try as hard as you can to be without sin and without fault. Try to be at peace with God.

Matthew 5:48

What I am saying is that you must be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

Hebrews 12:14

Try to live in peace with everyone. And try to keep your lives free from sin. Anyone whose life is not holy will never see the Lord.

Hebrews 7:26

So Jesus is the kind of high priest we need. He is holy. He has no sin in him. He is pure and not influenced by sinners. And he is raised above the heavens.

Colossians 1:5

Your faith and love continue because you know what is waiting for you in heaven—the hope you have had since you first heard the true message, the Good News

Acts 15:9

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

Titus 3:7

We were made right with God by his grace. God saved us so that we could be his children and look forward to receiving life that never ends.

2 Peter 1:4

through which he also gave us the very great and rich gifts that he promised us. With these gifts you can share in being like God. And so you will escape the ruin that comes to people in the world because of the evil things they want.

Luke 6:36

Give love and mercy the same as your Father gives love and mercy.

1 John 4:17

If God’s love is made perfect in us, we can be without fear on the day when God judges the world. We will be without fear, because in this world we are like Jesus.

Hebrews 6:18

These two things cannot change: God cannot lie when he says something, and he cannot lie when he makes an oath. So these two things are a great help to us who have come to God for safety. They encourage us to hold on to the hope that is ours.

2 Thessalonians 2:16

We pray that the Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father will comfort you and strengthen you in every good thing you do and say. God loved us and gave us through his grace a wonderful hope and comfort that has no end.

Romans 15:12

And Isaiah says, “Someone will come from Jesse’s family. He will come to rule over the nations, and they will put their hope in him.” Isaiah 11:10

2 Samuel 22:27

You never do wrong to those who have done no wrong. But you outsmart the wicked, no matter how clever they are.

John 17:19

I am making myself completely ready to serve you. I do this for them, so that they also might be fully qualified for your service.

James 4:8

Come near to God and he will come near to you. You are sinners, so clean sin out of your lives. You are trying to follow God and the world at the same time. Make your thinking pure.

1 Peter 1:3

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. God has great mercy, and because of his mercy he gave us a new life. This new life brings us a living hope through Jesus Christ’s resurrection from death.

1 Peter 1:15

Be holy in everything you do, just as God is holy. He is the one who chose you.