Pure in Heart.

                             

"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God."  Matthew 5:8 (NRSV)

Jesus said that the world did not know God.

"'Isaiah prophesied rightly about you when he said: "This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me; in vain do they worship me."'"  Matthew 15:*,9 (NRSV)

Only the pure in heart will see God.

For "the Lord looks on the heart."  1 Samuel 16:7 (NRSV)


[Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission.  All rights reserved.]

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