So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, “For I have seen God face to face, yet my life is preserved.”
Matthew 5:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. Plus de versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Blessed (happy, enviably fortunate, and spiritually prosperous–possessing the happiness produced by the experience of God's favor and especially conditioned by the revelation of His grace, regardless of their outward conditions) are the pure in heart, for they shall see God! [Ps. 24:3, 4.] American Standard Version (1901) Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. Common English Bible “Happy are people who have pure hearts, because they will see God. Catholic Public Domain Version Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Blessed are the clean of heart: for they shall see God. |
So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, “For I have seen God face to face, yet my life is preserved.”
with the pure you show yourself pure, and with the crooked you show yourself shrewd.
Those who walk blamelessly and do what is right and speak the truth from their heart;
with the pure you show yourself pure; and with the crooked you show yourself shrewd.
Those who have clean hands and pure hearts, who do not lift up their souls to what is false and do not swear deceitfully.
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me.
You desire truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.
Those who love a pure heart and are gracious in speech will have the king as a friend.
and in cleansing their hearts by faith he has made no distinction between them and us.
For now we see only a reflection, as in a mirror, 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.
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.
To the pure all things are pure, but to the corrupt and unbelieving nothing is pure; their very minds and consciences are corrupted.
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.
Pursue peace with everyone and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
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!
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.
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Now that you have purified your souls by your obedience to the truth so that you have genuine mutual affection, love one another deeply from the heart.