Matthew 5:8

The Passion Translation

“What bliss you experience when your heart is pure! For then your eyes will open to see more and more of God.

Cross References

Genesis 32:30

So Jacob named the place Penuel, saying, “I have seen God face-to-face, yet my life has been spared!”

Psalm 15:2

They are passionate and wholehearted, always sincere and always speaking the truth— for their hearts are trustworthy.

Psalm 18:26

And for those who are purified, they find you always pure. But you’ll outwit the crooked and cunning with your craftiness.

Psalm 24:4

Those who are clean—whose works and ways are pure, whose hearts are true and sealed by the truth, those who never deceive, whose words are sure.

Psalm 51:10

Keep creating in me a clean heart. Fill me with pure thoughts and holy desires, ready to please you.

Psalm 51:6

I know that you delight to set your truth deep in my spirit. So come into the hidden places of my heart and teach me wisdom.

Psalm 73:1

No one can deny it—God is really good to Israel and to all those with pure hearts. But I nearly missed seeing it for myself.

Proverbs 22:11

The Lord loves those whose hearts are holy, and he is the friend of those whose ways are pure.

Acts 15:9

So now, not one thing separates us as Jews and gentiles, for when they believe he makes their hearts pure.

1 Corinthians 13:12

For now we see but a faint reflection of riddles and mysteries as though reflected in a mirror, but one day we will see face-to-face. My understanding is incomplete now, but one day I will understand everything, just as everything about me has been fully understood.

2 Corinthians 7:1

Beloved ones, with promises like these, and because of our deepest respect and worship of God, we must remove everything from our lives that contaminates body and spirit, and continue to complete the development of holiness within us.

Titus 1:15

It’s true that all is pure to those who have pure hearts, but to the corrupt unbelievers nothing is pure. Their minds and consciences are defiled.

Hebrews 10:22

we come closer to God and approach him with an open heart, fully convinced that nothing will keep us at a distance from him. For our hearts have been sprinkled with blood to remove impurity, and we have been freed from an accusing conscience. Now we are clean, unstained, and presentable to God inside and out!

Hebrews 12:14

In every relationship be swift to choose peace over competition, and run swiftly toward holiness, for those who are not holy will not see the Lord.

Hebrews 9:14

Yet how much more will the sacred blood of the Messiah thoroughly cleanse our consciences! For by the power of the eternal Spirit he has offered himself to God as the perfect Sacrifice that now frees us from our dead works to worship and serve the living God.

James 3:17

But the wisdom from above is always pure, filled with peace, considerate and teachable. It is filled with love and never displays prejudice or hypocrisy in any form

James 4:8

Move your heart closer and closer to God, and he will come even closer to you. But make sure you cleanse your life, you sinners, and keep your heart pure and stop doubting.

1 Peter 1:22

Now, because of your obedience to the truth, you have purified your very souls, and this empowers you to be full of love for your fellow believers. So express this sincere love toward one another passionately and with a pure heart.

Revelation 22:4

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