⁹ Hide your face from my sins, And blot out all of my iniquities.

¹⁰ Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

¹¹ Don't throw me from your presence, And don't take your holy Spirit from me.

¹² Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.

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

² Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

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

⁴ Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

⁹ This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;

¹⁰ so that you may approve the things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ;

¹¹ being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

¹² Now I desire to have you know, brothers,{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} that the things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the Gospel;

¹⁴ Do all things without murmurings and disputes,

¹⁵ that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

¹⁶ holding up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn't run in vain nor labor in vain.

¹⁷ Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.

³ Who may ascend to Yahweh's hill? Who may stand in his holy place?

⁴ He who has clean hands and a pure heart; Who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, And has not sworn deceitfully.

⁵ He shall receive a blessing from Yahweh, Righteousness from the God of his salvation.

⁶ This is the generation of those who seek Him, Who seek your face--even Jacob. Selah.

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

⁵ but the end of the charge is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and unfeigned faith;

¹ > Surely God is good to Israel, To those who are pure in heart.

²² Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

² All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; But Yahweh weighs the motives.

²² Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently: