¹⁰ Make a clean heart in me, O God; give me a right spirit again.

¹⁹ And I will give them a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in them; and I will take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh:

¹⁷ So if any man is in Christ, he is in a new world: the old things have come to an end; they have truly become new.

³¹ Put away all your evil-doing in which you have done sin; and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: why are you desiring death, O children of Israel?

⁸ Happy are the clean in heart: for they will see God.

²² That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;

²³ And be made new in the spirit of your mind,

²⁴ And put on the new man, to which God has given life, in righteousness and a true and holy way of living.

²⁵ And I will put clean water on you so that you may be clean: from all your unclean ways and from all your images I will make you clean.

²⁶ And I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you: I will take away the heart of stone from your flesh, and give you a heart of flesh.

²⁷ And I will put my spirit in you, causing you to be guided by my rules, and you will keep my orders and do them.

⁹ Making no division between them and us, but making clean their hearts by faith.

²² And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:

² And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.

⁵ Not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but in the measure of his mercy, he gave us salvation, through the washing of the new birth and the giving of new life in the Holy Spirit,

³⁹ And I will give them one heart and one way, so that they may go on in the worship of me for ever, for their good and the good of their children after them:

⁹ Who is able to say, I have made my heart clean, I am free from my sin?

⁴ He who has clean hands and a true heart; whose desire has not gone out to foolish things, who has not taken a false oath.

¹⁰ For by his act we were given existence in Christ Jesus to do those good works which God before made ready for us so that we might do them.

¹ Truly, God is good to Israel, even to such as are clean in heart.

⁵⁸ For this cause, my dear brothers, be strong in purpose and unmoved, ever giving yourselves to the work of the Lord, because you are certain that your work is not without effect in the Lord.

²³ Who, when he came and saw the grace of God, was glad; and he made clear to them the need of keeping near the Lord with all the strength of their hearts:

³ And he did the same sins which his father had done before him: his heart was not completely true to the Lord his God, like the heart of David his father.

⁴ But because of David, the Lord gave him a light in Jerusalem, making his sons king after him, so that Jerusalem might be safe;

⁵ Because David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and never in all his life went against his orders, but only in the question of Uriah the Hittite.

⁸ And not be like their fathers, a stiff-necked and uncontrolled generation; a generation whose heart was hard, whose spirit was not true to God.

³⁷ And their hearts were not right with him, and they did not keep their agreement with him.

²⁷ I have seen your disgusting acts, even your false behaviour and your cries of desire and your loose ways on the hills in the field. Unhappy are you, O Jerusalem, you have no desire to be made clean; how long will you be in turning back to me?

¹⁰ And have put on the new man, which has become new in knowledge after the image of his maker;

⁸ For there is a division in his mind, and he is uncertain in all his ways.

³⁷ This is what the Lord has said: The children of Israel will again make prayer to me for this, that I may do it for them; I will make them increased with men like a flock.

¹⁴ So Hebron became the heritage of Caleb, the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, to this day, because with all his heart he was true to the Lord, the God of Israel.