Purity: The Pathway to God’s Presence

Matthew 5:8 CSB
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

Psalm 101:3-4 ESV
I will not set before my eyes anything that is worthless. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.  4 A perverse heart shall be far from me; I will know nothing of evil.

1 Corinthians 6:18-20 NIV
Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. 19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.

Jeremiah 17:9 NASB
“The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick; who can understand it?

Proverbs 4:23
Watch over your heart with all diligence, for from it flow the springs of life.

Proverbs 23:7a
For as he thinks within himself, so he is.

James 1:13-15
No one is to say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone. 14 But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust. 15 Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it has run its course, brings forth death.

John 8:34
Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5,7-8 CSB
For this is God’s will, your sanctification: that you keep away from sexual immorality, 4 that each of you knows how to control his own body in holiness and honor, 5 not with lustful passions, like the Gentiles, who don’t know God. 7 For God has not called us to impurity but to live in holiness. 8 Consequently, anyone who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit.