1 John 3:3

New Century Version

Christ is pure, and all who have this hope in Christ keep themselves pure like Christ.

Cross References

2 Samuel 22:27

You are pure to those who are pure, but you are against those who are evil.

Matthew 5:48

So you must be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

Luke 6:36

Show mercy, just as your Father shows mercy.

John 17:19

For their sake, I am making myself ready to serve so that they can be ready for their service of the truth.

Acts 15:9

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

Romans 15:12

And Isaiah says, “A new king will come from the family of Jesse. He will come to rule over the non-Jewish people, and they will have hope because of him.”

2 Corinthians 7:1

Dear friends, we have these promises from God, so we should make ourselves pure—free from anything that makes body or soul unclean. We should try to become holy in the way we live, because we respect God.

Colossians 1:5

You have this faith and love because of your hope, and what you hope for is kept safe for you in heaven. You learned about this hope when you heard the message about the truth, the Good News

2 Thessalonians 2:16

May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father encourage you and strengthen you in every good thing you do and say. God loved us, and through his grace he gave us a good hope and encouragement that continues forever.

Titus 3:7

Being made right with God by his grace, we could have the hope of receiving the life that never ends.

Hebrews 12:14

Try to live in peace with all people, and try to live free from sin. Anyone whose life is not holy will never see the Lord.

Hebrews 6:18

These two things cannot change: God cannot lie when he makes a promise, and he cannot lie when he makes an oath. These things encourage us who came to God for safety. They give us strength to hold on to the hope we have been given.

Hebrews 7:26

Jesus is the kind of high priest we need. He is holy, sinless, pure, not influenced by sinners, and he is raised above the heavens.

James 4:8

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

1 Peter 1:15

But be holy in all you do, just as God, the One who called you, is holy.

1 Peter 1:3

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. In God’s great mercy he has caused us to be born again into a living hope, because Jesus Christ rose from the dead.

2 Peter 1:4

Through these he gave us the very great and precious promises. With these gifts you can share in God’s nature, and the world will not ruin you with its evil desires.

2 Peter 3:14

Dear friends, since you are waiting for this to happen, do your best to be without sin and without fault. Try to be at peace with God.

1 John 2:6

Whoever says that he lives in God must live as Jesus lived.

1 John 4:17

This is how love is made perfect in us: that we can be without fear on the day God judges us, because in this world we are like him.