Toward the sincere you are sincere; but to the perverse you are devious.
Blessed are the clean of heart, for they will see God.
Toward the faithful you are faithful; to the honest man you are honest;
Woe to anyone who contends with their Maker; a potsherd among potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to the potter, “What are you doing?” or, “What you are making has no handles”?
But those who turn aside to crooked ways may the Lord send down with the evildoers. Peace upon Israel!
Now I know that the Lord is greater than all the gods; for he rescued the people from the power of the Egyptians when they treated them arrogantly.”
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God handed them over to their undiscerning mind to do what is improper.
Everyone who has this hope based on him makes himself pure, as he is pure. Avoiding Sin.