being pure
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8Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
12Create a clean heart in me, O God. And renew an upright spirit within my inmost being.
22So then, flee from the desires of your youth, yet truly, pursue justice, faith, hope, charity, and peace, along with those who call upon the Lord from a pure heart.
4May marriage be honorable in every way, and may the marriage bed be immaculate. For God will judge fornicators and adulterers.
3And everyone who holds this hope in him, keeps himself holy, just as he also is holy.
8Concerning the rest, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is chaste, whatever is just, whatever is holy, whatever is worthy to be loved, whatever is of good repute, if there is any virtue, if there is any praiseworthy discipline: meditate on these.
27This is religion, clean and undefiled before God the Father: to visit orphans and widows in their tribulations, and to keep yourself immaculate, apart from this age.
22So chastise your souls with the obedience of charity, in fraternal love, and love one another from a simple heart, attentively.
7The eloquence of the Lord is pure eloquence, silver tested by fire, purged from the earth, refined seven times.
5Now the goal of instruction is charity from a pure heart, and a good conscience, and an unfeigned faith.