⁹ Let your face be turned from my wrongdoing, and take away all my sins.

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

¹¹ Do not put me away from before you, or take your holy spirit from me.

¹² Give me back the joy of your salvation; let a free spirit be my support.

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

² My loved ones, now we are children of God, and at present it is not clear what we are to be. We are certain that at his revelation we will be like him; for we will see him as he is.

³ And everyone who has this hope in him makes himself holy, even as he is holy.

⁴ Everyone who is a sinner goes against the law, for sin is going against the law.

⁹ And my prayer is that you may be increased more and more in knowledge and experience;

¹⁰ So that you may give your approval to the best things; that you may be true and without wrongdoing till the day of Christ;

¹¹ Being full of the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

¹² Now it is my purpose to make clear to you, brothers, that the cause of the good news has been helped by my experiences;

¹⁴ Do all things without protests and arguments;

¹⁵ So that you may be holy and gentle, children of God without sin in a twisted and foolish generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

¹⁶ Offering the word of life; so that I may have glory in you in the day of Christ, because my running was not for nothing and my work was not without effect.

¹⁷ And even if I am offered like a drink offering, giving myself for the cause and work of your faith, I am glad and have joy with you all:

³ Who may go up into the hill of the Lord? and who may come into his holy place?

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.

⁵ He will have blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.

⁶ This is the generation of those whose hearts are turned to you, even to your face, O God of Jacob. (Selah.)

³ And everyone who has this hope in him makes himself holy, even as he is holy.

⁵ But the effect of the order is love coming from a clean heart, and a knowledge of what is right, and true faith:

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

²² But keep yourself from those desires of the flesh which are strong when the body is young, and go after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those whose prayers go up to the Lord from a clean heart.

² All a man's ways are clean to himself; but the Lord puts men's spirits into his scales.

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: