Matthew 5:8

Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

Cross References

Genesis 32:30

And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, said he, I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.

2 Samuel 22:27

With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the perverse thou wilt shew thyself froward.

Psalm 15:2

He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, And speaketh truth in his heart.

Psalm 18:26

With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; And with the perverse thou wilt shew thyself froward.

Psalm 24:4

He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; Who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, And hath not sworn deceitfully.

Psalm 51:10

Create in me a clean heart, O God; And renew a right spirit within me.

Psalm 51:6

Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: And in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

Psalm 73:1

Surely God is good to Israel, Even to such as are pure in heart.

Proverbs 22:11

He that loveth pureness of heart, For the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.

Acts 15:9

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

1 Corinthians 13:12

For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I have been known.

2 Corinthians 7:1

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Titus 1:15

To the pure all things are pure: but to them that are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

Hebrews 10:22

let us draw near with a true heart in fulness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our body washed with pure water:

Hebrews 12:14

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord:

Hebrews 9:14

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish unto God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

James 3:17

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without variance, without hypocrisy.

James 4:8

Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded.

1 Peter 1:22

Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart fervently:

Revelation 22:4

and they shall see his face; and his name shall be on their foreheads.