Topic
Pure; Purely; Purity
13 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Exodus 25:11ISBE
And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about.
- Job 9:30ISBE
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
- Job 22:30ISBE
He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.
- Isaiah 1:25ISBE
¶ And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:
- Matthew 5:8ISBE
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
- 2 Corinthians 11:3ISBE
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
- Philippians 4:8ISBE
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise,…
- 1 Timothy 4:12ISBE
Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
- 1 Timothy 5:2ISBE
The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
- 1 Timothy 5:22ISBE
Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men’s sins: keep thyself pure.
- James 3:17ISBE
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
- 2 Peter 3:1ISBE
This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
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- 1 John 3:3 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 13 references
pur, pur'-li, pu'-ri-ti: This group of words has in the Old Testament and the New Testament an almost exclusively ethical significance, though the word "pure" is of course used also in its literal sense of freedom from alloy or other alien matter (Ex 25:11, etc.). "Pure" in the Old Testament represents many Hebrew words, most frequently Tahor; "purely," occurs once only in the King James Version, as the translation of bor, properly "that which cleanses" (compare Job 9:30, the Revised Version margin "Hebrew `cleanse my hands with lye,' " i.e. alkali for soap) in Isa 1:25, the Revised Version (British and American) "thoroughly (margin "as with lye," the King James Version "purely") purge away thy dross"; "pureness" is the King James Version translation of the same word in Job 22:30, the Revised Version (British and American) "cleanness." In the New Testament "pure" is the translation chiefly of katharos (Mt 5:8, Blessed are the pure in heart," etc.), but also of hagnos (Php 4:8; 1Ti 5:22; Jas 3:17; 1 Joh 3:3--always in an ethical sense). A different word (eilikrines) is used in 2Pe 3:1, the Revised Version (British and American) "sincere." "Purity" (hagneia) occurs only in the King James Version in 1Ti 4:12; 5:2; in the Revised Version (British and American) in 2Co 11:3 (as the translation of tes hagnotelos).
W. L. Walker
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.