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 shall see God.
• Ps 51:10Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
• Jas 4:8Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
• Job 17:9The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
• Ps 73:1Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.
• 2 Cor 7:1Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
• Ps 26:6I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:
• Isa 33:15–16He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;
• 1 Tim 2:8I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
• Acts 15:9And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.
• Ps 143:8Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.
• Ps 18:20The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
• Ps 15:4In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.
• Isa 1:15–16And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
• Rev 22:14–15Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
• Rev 21:1–4And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
• Rev 21:27And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
• Prov 20:9Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
• Jer 4:14O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
• Ezek 18:6And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour’s wife, neither hath come near to a menstruous woman,
• Jer 7:9–10Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
• Mal 3:5And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
• Ps 25:1Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.
• Job 9:30If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
• Deut 4:19And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
• Zech 5:3–4Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it.
• Acts 14:15And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein:
• Gen 6:5And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
• 1 Tim 1:10For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
• Jer 5:2And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely.
• Ezek 18:15That hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hath not defiled his neighbour’s wife,

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