Matthew 5:8
Good News Translation
"Happy are the pure in heart; they will see God!

New Revised Standard Version
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

Contemporary English Version
God blesses those people whose hearts are pure. They will see him!

New American Bible
Blessed are the clean of heart, for they will see God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Blessed are the clean of heart: they shall see God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Blessed are the clean of heart: they shall see God.

are.

Matthew 23:25-28 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you make clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but within you are full of rapine and uncleanness. . . .

1 Chronicles 29:17-19 I know my God that thou provest hearts, and lovest simplicity, wherefore I also in the simplicity of my heart, have joyfully offered all these things: and I have seen with great joy thy people, which are here present, offer thee their offerings. . . .

Psalm 15:2 He that walketh without blemish, and worketh justice:

Psalm 18:26 And with the elect thou wilt be elect: and with the perverse thou wilt be perverted.

Psalm 24:4 The innocent in hands, and clean of heart, who hath not taken his soul in vain, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbour.

Psalm 51:6,10 For behold thou hast loved truth: the uncertain and hidden things of thy wisdom thou hast made manifest to me. . . .

Psalm 73:1 A psalm for Asaph. How good is God to Israel, to them that are of a right heart!

Proverbs 22:11 He that loveth cleanness of heart, for the grace of his lips shall have the king for his friend.

Ezekiel 36:25-27 And I will pour upon you clean water, and you shall be cleansed from all your filthiness, and I will cleanse you from all your idols. . . .

Acts 15:9 And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

2 Corinthians 7:1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of the flesh and of the spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God.

Titus 1:15 All things are clean to the clean: but to them that are defiled and to unbelievers, nothing is clean: but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

Hebrews 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who by the Holy Ghost offered himself unspotted unto God, cleanse our conscience from dead works, to serve the living God?

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 bodies washed with clean water.

James 3:17 But the wisdom that is from above, first indeed is chaste, then peaceable, modest, easy to be persuaded, consenting to the good, full of mercy and good fruits, without judging, without dissimulation.

James 4:8 Draw nigh to God: and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

1 Peter 1:22 Purifying your souls in the obedience of charity, with a brotherly love, from a sincere heart love one another earnestly:

for.

Genesis 32:30 And Jacob called the name of the place Phanuel, saying: I have seen God face to face, and my soul has been saved.

Job 19:26,27 And I shall be clothed again with my skin, and in my flesh I shall see my God. . . .

1 Corinthians 13:12 We see now through a glass in a dark manner: but then face to face. Now I know in part: but then I shall know even as I am known.

Hebrews 12:14 Follow peace with all men and holiness: without which no man shall see God.

1 John 3:2,3 Dearly beloved, we are now the sons of God: and it hath not yet appeared what we shall be. We know that when he shall appear we shall be like to him: because we shall see him as he is. . . .

Context
The Beatitudes
7Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. 8Blessed are the clean of heart: they shall see God. 9Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.…
Cross References
2 Samuel 22:27
With the elect thou wilt be elect: and with the perverse thou wilt be perverted.

Job 19:26
And I shall be clothed again with my skin, and in my flesh I shall see my God.

Psalm 24:4
The innocent in hands, and clean of heart, who hath not taken his soul in vain, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbour.

Psalm 51:10
Create a clean heart in me, O God: and renew a right spirit within my bowels.

Psalm 73:1
A psalm for Asaph. How good is God to Israel, to them that are of a right heart!

Proverbs 22:11
He that loveth cleanness of heart, for the grace of his lips shall have the king for his friend.

Hebrews 12:14
Follow peace with all men and holiness: without which no man shall see God.

1 John 3:2
Dearly beloved, we are now the sons of God: and it hath not yet appeared what we shall be. We know that when he shall appear we shall be like to him: because we shall see him as he is.

Revelation 22:4
And they shall see his face: and his name shall be on their foreheads.

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