Quotes About Purity

At that time the Book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people, and in it they found the passage stating that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,

As soon as the people heard this law, they excluded from Israel all of foreign descent.

And I was greatly displeased and threw all of Tobiahís household goods out of the room.

Then I instructed the Levites to purify themselves and guard the gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy. Remember me for this as well, O my God, and show me mercy according to Your abundant loving devotion.

I rebuked them and called down curses on them. I beat some of these men and pulled out their hair. Then I made them take an oath before God and said, “You must not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters as wives for your sons or for yourselves!

Even one of the sons of Jehoiada son of Eliashib the high priest had become a son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite. Therefore I drove him away from me.

ëCan a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?

My soul refuses to touch them; they are loathsome food to me.

if you are pure and upright, even now He will rouse Himself on your behalf and restore your righteous estate.

If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,

You have said, ëMy doctrine is sound, and I am pure in Your sight.í

if you put away the iniquity in your hand, and allow no injustice to dwell in your tents,

Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!

What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

If God puts no trust in His holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in His eyes,

yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.

If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice from your tents

He will deliver even one who is not innocent, rescuing him through the cleanness of your hands.”

How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?

If even the moon does not shine, and the stars are not pure in His sight,

“I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?

If my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has followed my eyes, or if impurity has stuck to my hands,

For it is a fire that burns down to Abaddon; it would root out my entire harvest.

ëI am pure, without transgression; I am clean, with no iniquity in me.