Psalm 24:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Genesis 6:5

The Lord saw that the wickedness of humans was great in the earth and that every inclination of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually.

Job 17:9

Yet the righteous hold to their way, and they who have clean hands grow stronger and stronger.

Job 9:30

If I wash myself with soap and cleanse my hands with lye,

Psalm 143:8

Let me hear of your steadfast love in the morning, for in you I put my trust. Teach me the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.

Psalm 15:4

in whose eyes the wicked are despised but who honor those who fear the Lord; who stand by their oath even to their hurt;

Psalm 18:20

The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he recompensed me.

Psalm 25:1

To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul.

Psalm 26:6

I wash my hands in innocence and go around your altar, O Lord,

Psalm 51:10

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me.

Psalm 51:12

Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and sustain in me a willing spirit.

Psalm 73:1

Truly God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.

Proverbs 20:9

Who can say, “I have made my heart clean; I am pure from my sin”?

Jeremiah 4:14

O Jerusalem, wash your heart clean of wickedness so that you may be saved. How long shall your evil schemes lodge within you?

Jeremiah 5:2

Although they say, “As the Lord lives,” yet they swear falsely.

Ezekiel 18:15

who does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife,

Ezekiel 18:6

if he does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her menstrual period,

Malachi 3:5

Then I will draw near to you for judgment; I will be swift to bear witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired workers in their wages, the widow, and the orphan, against those who thrust aside the alien and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 5:8

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

Acts 14:15

“People, why are you doing this? We are mortals just like you, and we bring you good news, that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.

Acts 15:9

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

2 Corinthians 7:1

Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of flesh and of spirit, making holiness perfect in the fear of God.

Deuteronomy 4:19

And when you look up to the heavens and see the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the host of heaven, do not be led astray and bow down to them and serve them, things that the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples everywhere under heaven.

1 Timothy 1:10

the sexually immoral, men who engage in illicit sex, slave traders, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to the sound teaching

1 Timothy 2:8

I desire, then, that in every place the men should pray, lifting up holy hands without anger or argument,

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.

Revelation 21:27

But nothing unclean will enter it, nor anyone who practices abomination or falsehood, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.