100 Bible Verses about A Pure Heart

Matthew 5:8 ESV / 1,646 helpful votes

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Psalm 51:10 ESV / 1,364 helpful votes

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 896 helpful votes

Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

Psalm 24:3-4 ESV / 695 helpful votes

Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord? And who shall stand in his holy place? 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.

James 4:8 ESV / 668 helpful votes

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 646 helpful votes

So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 645 helpful votes

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 618 helpful votes

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

1 Peter 1:22 ESV / 597 helpful votes

Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,

Psalm 19:14 ESV / 586 helpful votes

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.

Matthew 6:21 ESV / 566 helpful votes

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Psalm 24:4 ESV / 564 helpful votes

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.

1 John 3:2 ESV / 559 helpful votes

Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.

Matthew 22:37 ESV / 540 helpful votes

And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.

Psalm 119:11 ESV / 517 helpful votes

I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

1 Timothy 1:5 ESV / 514 helpful votes

The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.

Acts 15:9 ESV / 500 helpful votes

And he made no distinction between us and them, having cleansed their hearts by faith.

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 470 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Psalm 37:4 ESV / 468 helpful votes

Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Psalm 119:9 ESV / 456 helpful votes

How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word.

Psalm 51:6 ESV / 438 helpful votes

Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.

John 14:6 ESV / 436 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Matthew 23:25-28 ESV / 436 helpful votes

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside also may be clean. “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people's bones and all uncleanness. So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Psalm 19:8 ESV / 431 helpful votes

The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes;

1 Corinthians 13:12 ESV / 414 helpful votes

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.

Hebrews 12:14 ESV / 411 helpful votes

Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.

Psalm 24:1-10 ESV / 411 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein, for he has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the rivers. Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord? And who shall stand in his holy place? 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. He will receive blessing from the Lord and righteousness from the God of his salvation. ...

Psalm 73:1 ESV / 399 helpful votes

A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 394 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 John 3:3 ESV / 388 helpful votes

And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.

Genesis 6:5 ESV / 386 helpful votes

The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Ezekiel 36:26 ESV / 383 helpful votes

And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

Matthew 5:1-8:34 ESV / 374 helpful votes

Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. ...

Psalm 119:2 ESV / 371 helpful votes

Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart,

Proverbs 27:19 ESV / 369 helpful votes

As in water face reflects face, so the heart of man reflects the man.

Jeremiah 4:14 ESV / 368 helpful votes

O Jerusalem, wash your heart from evil, that you may be saved. How long shall your wicked thoughts lodge within you?

Revelation 22:4 ESV / 359 helpful votes

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

Jeremiah 17:9-10 ESV / 351 helpful votes

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? “I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”

Psalm 86:11 ESV / 347 helpful votes

Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear your name.

2 Corinthians 7:1 ESV / 341 helpful votes

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.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 329 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 324 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Jeremiah 29:13 ESV / 318 helpful votes

You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.

Proverbs 17:22 ESV / 318 helpful votes

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Proverbs 3:3-4 ESV / 312 helpful votes

Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man.

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 311 helpful votes

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

James 3:2 ESV / 306 helpful votes

For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.

Joshua 22:5 ESV / 305 helpful votes

Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and to cling to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

2 Corinthians 9:7 ESV / 302 helpful votes

Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

Titus 1:15 ESV / 296 helpful votes

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.

Deuteronomy 6:5 ESV / 294 helpful votes

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

Proverbs 10:8 ESV / 289 helpful votes

The wise of heart will receive commandments, but a babbling fool will come to ruin.

Psalm 119:10 ESV / 287 helpful votes

With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments!

1 Peter 2:11 ESV / 286 helpful votes

Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.

Psalm 27:3 ESV / 286 helpful votes

Though an army encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war arise against me, yet I will be confident.

Mark 11:23 ESV / 285 helpful votes

Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.

Psalm 119:7 ESV / 285 helpful votes

I will praise you with an upright heart, when I learn your righteous rules.

1 Peter 3:3-4 ESV / 284 helpful votes

Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.

Proverbs 22:11 ESV / 284 helpful votes

He who loves purity of heart, and whose speech is gracious, will have the king as his friend.

Psalm 20:4 ESV / 282 helpful votes

May he grant you your heart's desire and fulfill all your plans!

Proverbs 3:1-2 ESV / 281 helpful votes

My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you.

Psalm 90:12 ESV / 281 helpful votes

So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.

Psalm 31:24 ESV / 281 helpful votes

Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the Lord!

Psalm 9:1 ESV / 280 helpful votes

To the choirmaster: according to Muth-labben. A Psalm of David. I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart; I will recount all of your wonderful deeds.

Ephesians 5:3 ESV / 277 helpful votes

But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.

Ecclesiastes 11:10 ESV / 273 helpful votes

Remove vexation from your heart, and put away pain from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

Proverbs 4:20-21 ESV / 269 helpful votes

My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart.

Matthew 12:34 ESV / 267 helpful votes

You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Matthew 15:19 ESV / 266 helpful votes

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.

1 Corinthians 9:7 ESV / 263 helpful votes

Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard without eating any of its fruit? Or who tends a flock without getting some of the milk?

Matthew 6:1-21:46 ESV / 263 helpful votes

“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. ...

Joel 2:13 ESV / 260 helpful votes

And rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster.

Joel 2:12 ESV / 260 helpful votes

“Yet even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;

Song of Solomon 8:6 ESV / 259 helpful votes

Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the Lord.

Ecclesiastes 9:7 ESV / 259 helpful votes

Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do.

Proverbs 13:12 ESV / 258 helpful votes

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.

Psalm 119:1-136:26 ESV / 258 helpful votes

Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord! Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart, who also do no wrong, but walk in his ways! You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently. Oh that my ways may be steadfast in keeping your statutes! ...

Proverbs 23:15 ESV / 257 helpful votes

My son, if your heart is wise, my heart too will be glad.

Psalm 13:5-6 ESV / 257 helpful votes

But I have trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation. I will sing to the Lord, because he has dealt bountifully with me.

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 256 helpful votes

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Psalm 147:3 ESV / 253 helpful votes

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

Joshua 23:14 ESV / 251 helpful votes

“And now I am about to go the way of all the earth, and you know in your hearts and souls, all of you, that not one word has failed of all the good things that the Lord your God promised concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one of them has failed.

James 4:4 ESV / 249 helpful votes

You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

John 14:27 ESV / 244 helpful votes

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 241 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

1 Samuel 12:1-24:22 ESV / 241 helpful votes

And Samuel said to all Israel, “Behold, I have obeyed your voice in all that you have said to me and have made a king over you. And now, behold, the king walks before you, and I am old and gray; and behold, my sons are with you. I have walked before you from my youth until this day. Here I am; testify against me before the Lord and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or from whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? Testify against me and I will restore it to you.” They said, “You have not defrauded us or oppressed us or taken anything from any man's hand.” And he said to them, “The Lord is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand.” And they said, “He is witness.” ...

Joshua 24:23 ESV / 237 helpful votes

He said, “Then put away the foreign gods that are among you, and incline your heart to the Lord, the God of Israel.”

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 232 helpful votes

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

Psalm 62:1-66:20 ESV / 231 helpful votes

To the choirmaster: according to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation. He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken. How long will all of you attack a man to batter him, like a leaning wall, a tottering fence? They only plan to thrust him down from his high position. They take pleasure in falsehood. They bless with their mouths, but inwardly they curse. Selah For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from him. ...

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 229 helpful votes

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Matthew 15:19-20 ESV / 219 helpful votes

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander. These are what defile a person. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone.”

Psalm 34:18 ESV / 215 helpful votes

The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 214 helpful votes

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

1 Corinthians 6:13 ESV / 214 helpful votes

“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Psalm 15:2 ESV / 209 helpful votes

He who walks blamelessly and does what is right and speaks truth in his heart;

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 ESV / 207 helpful votes

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;

Hebrews 10:22 ESV / 198 helpful votes

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.

Proverbs 1:7 ESV / 191 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Proverbs 23:26 ESV / 187 helpful votes

My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.

Philippians 4:7 ESV / 186 helpful votes

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

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