Matthew 5:8

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

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

Cross References

Genesis 32:30

So Jacob called 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 you show yourself pure, and with the crooked you show yourself perverse.

Psalm 15:2

Those who walk blamelessly, and do what is right, and speak the truth from their heart;

Psalm 18:26

with the pure you show yourself pure; and with the crooked you show yourself perverse.

Psalm 24:4

Those who have clean hands and pure hearts, who do not lift up their souls to what is false, and do 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

You desire 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

Those who love a pure heart and are gracious in speech will have the king as a friend.

Acts 15:9

and in cleansing their hearts by faith he has made no distinction between them and us.

1 Corinthians 13:12

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

2 Corinthians 7:1

Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and of spirit, making 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 approach 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

Pursue peace with everyone, and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.

Hebrews 9:14

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to worship the living God!

James 3:17

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without a trace of partiality or hypocrisy.

James 4:8

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

1 Peter 1:22

Now that you have purified your souls by your obedience to the truth so that you have genuine mutual love, love one another deeply from the heart.

Revelation 22:4

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