Psalm 24:4 {23:4}
Good News Translation
Those who are pure in act and in thought, who do not worship idols or make false promises.

New Revised Standard Version
Those who have clean hands and pure hearts, who do not lift up their souls to what is false, and do not swear deceitfully.

Contemporary English Version
Only those who do right for the right reasons, and don't worship idols or tell lies under oath.

New American Bible
“The clean of hand and pure of heart, who has not given his soul to useless things, what is vain.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The innocent in hands, and clean of heart, who hath not taken his soul in vain, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbour.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The innocent in hands, and clean of heart, who hath not taken his soul in vain, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbour.

He that.

Psalm 18:20 And the Lord will reward me according to my justice; and will repay me according to the cleanness of my hands:

Psalm 26:6 I will wash my hands among the innocent; and will compass thy altar, O Lord:

Job 9:30 If I be washed, as it were, with snow waters, and my hands shall shine ever so clean:

Job 17:9 And the just man shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

Isaiah 1:15,16 And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes from you: and when you multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands are full of blood. . . .

Isaiah 33:15,16 He that walketh in justices, and speaketh truth, that casteth away avarice by oppression, and shaketh his hands from all bribes, that stoppeth his ears lest he hear blood, and shutteth his eyes that he may see no evil. . . .

1 Timothy 2:8 I will therefore that men pray in every place, lifting up pure hands, without anger and contention.

James 4:8 Draw nigh to God: and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

pure

Psalm 51:10 Create a clean heart in me, O God: and renew a right spirit within my bowels.

Psalm 73:1 A psalm for Asaph. How good is God to Israel, to them that are of a right heart!

Genesis 6:5 And God seeing that the wickedness of men was great on the earth, and that all the thought of their heart was bent upon evil at all times,

Proverbs 20:9 Who can say: My heart is clean, I am pure from sin?

Jeremiah 4:14 Wash thy heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, that thou mayst be saved: how long shall hurtful thoughts abide in thee?

Matthew 5:8 Blessed are the clean of heart: they shall see God.

Acts 15:9 And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

2 Corinthians 7:1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of the flesh and of the spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God.

Revelation 21:1-4,27 I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth was gone: and the sea is now no more. . . .

Revelation 22:14,15 Blessed are they that wash their robes in the blood of the Lamb: that they may have a right to the tree of life and may enter in by the gates into the city. . . .

lifted

Psalm 25:1 Unto the end, a psalm for David. To thee, O Lord, have I lifted up my soul.

Psalm 143:8 Cause me to hear thy mercy in the morning; for in thee have I hoped. Make the way known to me, wherein I should walk: for I have lifted up my soul to thee.

Deuteronomy 4:19 Lest perhaps lifting up thy eyes to heaven, thou see the sun and the moon, and all the stars of heaven, and being deceived by error thou adore and serve them, which the Lord thy God created for the service of all the nations, that are under heaven.

Ezekiel 18:6,15 And hath not eaten upon the mountains, nor lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel: and hath not defiled his neighbour's wife, nor come near to a menstruous woman: . . .

Acts 14:15 And saying: Ye men, why do ye these things? We also are mortals, men like unto you, preaching to you to be converted from these vain things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things that are in them:

sworn

Psalm 15:4 In his sight the malignant is brought to nothing: but he glorifieth them that fear the Lord. He that sweareth to his neighbour, and deceiveth not;

Jeremiah 5:2 And though they say: The Lord liveth; this also they will swear falsely.

Jeremiah 7:9,10 To steal, to murder, to commit adultery, to swear falsely, to offer to Baalim, and to go after strange gods, which you know not. . . .

Zechariah 5:3,4 And he said to me: This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the earth: for every thief shall be judged as is there written: and every one that sweareth in like manner shall be judged by it. . . .

Malachi 3:5 And I will come to you in judgment, and will be a speedy witness against sorcerers, and adulterers, and false swearers, and them that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widows, and the fatherless: and oppress the stranger, and have not feared me, saith the Lord of hosts.

1 Timothy 1:10 For fornicators, for them who defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and whatever other thing is contrary to sound doctrine:

Context
The Earth is the LORD's
3Who shall ascend into the mountain of the Lord: or who shall stand in his holy place? 4The innocent in hands, and clean of heart, who hath not taken his soul in vain, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbour.5He shall receive a blessing from the Lord, and mercy from God his Saviour.…
Cross References
Matthew 5:8
Blessed are the clean of heart: they shall see God.

1 Timothy 2:8
I will therefore that men pray in every place, lifting up pure hands, without anger and contention.

2 Samuel 22:21
The Lord will reward me according to my justice: and according to the cleanness of my hands he will render to me.

Job 17:9
And the just man shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

Job 22:30
The innocent shall be saved, and he shall be saved by the cleanness of his hands.

Psalm 15:2
He that walketh without blemish, and worketh justice:

Psalm 15:4
In his sight the malignant is brought to nothing: but he glorifieth them that fear the Lord. He that sweareth to his neighbour, and deceiveth not;

Psalm 18:20
And the Lord will reward me according to my justice; and will repay me according to the cleanness of my hands:

Psalm 22:30
And to him my soul shall live: and my seed shall serve him.

Psalm 26:6
I will wash my hands among the innocent; and will compass thy altar, O Lord:

Psalm 51:10
Create a clean heart in me, O God: and renew a right spirit within my bowels.

Psalm 73:1
A psalm for Asaph. How good is God to Israel, to them that are of a right heart!

Proverbs 22:11
He that loveth cleanness of heart, for the grace of his lips shall have the king for his friend.

Isaiah 33:15
He that walketh in justices, and speaketh truth, that casteth away avarice by oppression, and shaketh his hands from all bribes, that stoppeth his ears lest he hear blood, and shutteth his eyes that he may see no evil.

Ezekiel 18:15
That hath not eaten upon the mountains, nor lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, and hath not defiled his neighbour's wife:

Psalm 24:3
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