(A)He who has (B)clean hands and (C)a pure heart,
    who does not (D)lift up his soul to (E)what is false
    and does not swear deceitfully.

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10 (A)Create in me a (B)clean heart, O God,
    and (C)renew a right[a] spirit within me.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 51:10 Or steadfast

(A)Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. (B)Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and (C)purify your hearts, (D)you double-minded.

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Yet the righteous holds to his way,
    and he who has (A)clean hands grows stronger and stronger.

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Since we have these promises, beloved, (A)let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body[a] and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.

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  1. 2 Corinthians 7:1 Greek flesh

Book Three

God Is My Strength and Portion Forever

A Psalm of (A)Asaph.

73 Truly God is good to (B)Israel,
    to those who are (C)pure in heart.

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15 (A)He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly,
    who despises the gain of oppressions,
who shakes his hands, lest they hold a bribe,
    who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed
    (B)and shuts his eyes from looking on evil,
16 he will dwell on the heights;
    his place of defense will be the fortresses of rocks;
    (C)his bread will be given him; his water will be sure.

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I (A)wash my hands in innocence
    and go around your altar, O Lord,

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I desire then that (A)in every place the men should pray, (B)lifting (C)holy hands without anger or quarreling;

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20 The Lord dealt with me (A)according to my righteousness;
    according to (B)the cleanness of my hands he rewarded me.

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15 When you (A)spread out your hands,
    I will hide my eyes from you;
(B)even though you make many prayers,
    I will not listen;
    (C)your hands are full of blood.
16 (D)Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean;
    remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes;
(E)cease to do evil,

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(A)Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love,
    for in you I (B)trust.
(C)Make me know the way I should go,
    (D)for to you I lift up my soul.

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(A)in whose eyes a vile person is despised,
    but who honors those who fear the Lord;
who (B)swears to his own hurt and does not change;

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if he (A)does not eat upon the mountains or (B)lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, (C)does not defile his neighbor's wife (D)or approach (E)a woman in her time of menstrual impurity,

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14 Blessed are those who (A)wash their robes,[a] so that they may have the right to (B)the tree of life and that (C)they may enter the city by the gates. 15 (D)Outside are (E)the dogs (F)and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

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  1. Revelation 22:14 Some manuscripts do his commandments

27 But (A)nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb's (B)book of life.

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The New Heaven and the New Earth

21 Then I saw (A)a new heaven and a new earth, for (B)the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw (C)the holy city, (D)new Jerusalem, (E)coming down out of heaven from God, (F)prepared (G)as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, (H)the dwelling place[a] of God is with man. He will (I)dwell with them, and they will be his people,[b] and God himself will be with them as their God.[c] (J)He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and (K)death shall be no more, (L)neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

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  1. Revelation 21:3 Or tabernacle
  2. Revelation 21:3 Some manuscripts peoples
  3. Revelation 21:3 Some manuscripts omit as their God

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

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(A)Who can say, “I have made my heart pure;
    I am clean from my sin”?

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“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be (A)a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those (B)who oppress the hired worker in his wages, (C)the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

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Then he said to me, “This is (A)the curse that goes out over the face of the whole land. For everyone who (B)steals shall be cleaned out according to what is on one side, and everyone who (C)swears falsely[a] shall be cleaned out according to what is on the other side. I will send it out, declares the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter the house of the thief, and the house of (D)him who swears falsely by my name. And (E)it shall remain in his house and (F)consume it, both timber and stones.”

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  1. Zechariah 5:3 Hebrew lacks falsely (supplied from verse 4)

Teach Me Your Paths

[a] Of David.

25 To you, O Lord, I (A)lift up my soul.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 25:1 This psalm is an acrostic poem, each verse beginning with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet

30 If I wash myself with snow
    and (A)cleanse my hands with lye,

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