So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, “For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered.”
Matthew 5:8 - English Standard Version 2016 “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 name of the place Peniel, saying, “For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered.”
with the purified you deal purely, and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous.
He who walks blamelessly and does what is right and speaks truth in his heart;
with the purified you show yourself pure; and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous.
He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully.
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.
He who loves purity of heart, and whose speech is gracious, will have the king as his friend.
and he made no distinction between us and them, having cleansed their hearts by faith.
For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.
To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled.
let us draw near 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.
Strive for peace with everyone, and for 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 serve the living God.
But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,