Proverbs 21:8

¹⁰Many will purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined, but the wicked will do wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand, but those who are wise will understand.

³Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

²⁹If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.

³for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?

²The LORD looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God. ³They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

¹⁵who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths,

⁸Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

¹²There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.

¹⁴What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? ¹⁵Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight; ¹⁶how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

²⁶The LORD detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the thoughts of the pure are pleasing.