With the pure you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.
1 John 3:3 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And everyone who has this hope [resting] on Him cleanses (purifies) himself just as He is pure (chaste, undefiled, guiltless). American Standard Version (1901) And every one that hath this hope set on him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. Common English Bible And all who have this hope in him purify themselves even as he is pure. Catholic Public Domain Version And everyone who holds this hope in him, keeps himself holy, just as he also is holy. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And every one that hath this hope in him, sanctifieth himself, as he also is holy. |
With the pure you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.
Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.
He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.
Again, Yeshaiyahu says, *There will be the root of Yishai, he who arises to rule over the Gentiles; in him the Gentiles will hope.*
Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News,
Now our Lord Yeshua the Messiah himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
that, being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Follow after shalom with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.
For such a Kohen Gadol was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Yeshua the Messiah from the dead,
by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.
Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in shalom, without blemish and blameless in his sight.
he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.
In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.