Psalms 24:4

The one fit to approach God has clean hands and a pure heart, free from idolatry and deceit. True worship requires integrity inside and out.

Cross-references · 31

• Matt 5:8Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
• Ps 51:10Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
• Jas 4:8Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
• Job 17:9Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.
• Ps 73:1A Psalm of Asaph. Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.
• 2 Cor 7:1Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
• Ps 26:6I wash my hands in innocence that I may go about Your altar, O LORD,
• Isa 33:15–16He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, who refuses gain from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears against murderous plots and shuts his eyes tightly against evil—
• 1 Tim 2:8Therefore I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands, without anger or dissension.
• Acts 15:9He made no distinction between us and them, for He cleansed their hearts by faith.
• Ps 143:8Let me hear Your loving devotion in the morning, for I have put my trust in You. Teach me the way I should walk, for to You I lift up my soul.
• Ps 18:20The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; He has repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.
• Ps 15:4who despises the vile but honors those who fear the LORD, who does not revise a costly oath,
• Isa 1:15–16When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.
• Rev 22:14–15Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates.
• Rev 21:1–4Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
• Rev 21:27But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
• Prov 20:9Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure; I am cleansed from my sin”?
• Jer 4:14Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?
• Ezek 18:6He does not eat at the mountain or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her period.
• Jer 7:9–10Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,
• Mal 3:5“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
• Ps 25:1Of David. To You, O LORD, I lift up my soul;
• Job 9:30If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,
• Deut 4:19When you look to the heavens and see the sun and moon and stars—all the host of heaven—do not be enticed to bow down and worship what the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.
• Zech 5:3–4Then he told me, “This is the curse that is going out over the face of all the land, for according to one side of the scroll, every thief will be removed; and according to the other side, every perjurer will be removed.
• Acts 14:15“Men, why are you doing this? We too are only men, human like you. We are bringing you good news that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth and sea and everything in them.
• Gen 6:5Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.
• 1 Tim 1:10for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave traders and liars and perjurers, and for anyone else who is averse to sound teaching
• Jer 5:2Although they say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ they are swearing falsely.”
• Ezek 18:15He does not eat at the mountain or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife.

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