⁹ Hide thy face from my sins, And blot out all mine iniquities.

¹⁰ Create in me a clean heart, O God; And renew a right spirit within me.

¹¹ Cast me not away from thy presence; And take not thy holy Spirit from me.

¹² Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; And uphold me with a willing spirit.

⁸ Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

² Beloved, now are we children of God, and it is not yet made manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he shall be manifested, we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is.

³ And every one that hath this hope `set' on him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

⁴ Every one that doeth sin doeth also lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.

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

¹⁰ so that ye may approve the things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and void of offence unto the day of Christ;

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

¹² Now I would have you know, brethren, that the things `which happened' unto me have fallen out rather unto the progress of the gospel;

¹⁴ Do all things without murmurings and questionings:

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

¹⁶ holding forth the word of life; that I may have whereof to glory in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain neither labor in vain.

¹⁷ Yea, and if I am offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all:

³ Who shall ascend into the hill of Jehovah? And who shall stand in his holy place?

⁴ He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; Who hath not lifted up his soul unto falsehood, And hath not sworn deceitfully.

⁵ He shall receive a blessing from Jehovah, And righteousness from the God of his salvation.

⁶ This is the generation of them that seek after him, That seek thy face, `even' Jacob. Selah

³ And every one that hath this hope `set' on him purifieth 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 faith unfeigned:

¹ Surely God is good to Israel, `Even' to such as are pure in heart.

²² after righteousness, faith, love, pace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

² All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; But Jehovah weigheth the spirits.

²² Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart fervently: