Matthew 5:8 Cross References - Moffatt

⁸ Blessed are the pure in heart! they will see God.

²⁵ Woe to you, you irreligious scribes and Pharisees! you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are filled with your rapacity and self-indulgence. ²⁶ Blind Pharisee! first clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside may be clean as well. ²⁷ Woe to you, you irreligious scribes and Pharisees! you are like tombs white-washed; they look comely on the outside, but inside they are full of dead men's bones and all manner of impurity. ²⁸ So to men you seem just, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

⁹ in cleansing their hearts by faith he made not the slightest distinction between us and them.

¹² At present we only see the baffling reflections in a mirror, but then it will be face to face; at present I am learning bit by bit, but then I shall understand, as all along I have myself been understood.

¹ As these great promises are ours, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that contaminates either flesh or spirit; let us be fully consecrated by reverence for God].

¹⁵ For the pure all things are pure, but nothing is pure for the polluted and unbelieving; their very mind and conscience are polluted.

¹⁴ how much more shall the blood of Christ, who in the spirit of the eternal offered himself as an unblemished sacrifice to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve a living God?

²² let us draw near with a true heart, in absolute assurance of faith, our hearts sprinkled clean from a bad conscience, and our bodies washed in pure water;

¹⁴ Aim at peace with all — and at that consecration without which no one will ever see the Lord;

¹⁷ The wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peaceable, forbearing, conciliatory, full of mercy and wholesome fruit, unambiguous, straightforward;

⁸ draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

²² Now that your obedience to the Truth has purified your souls for a brotherly love that is sincere, love one another heartily and steadily.

² We are children of God now, beloved; what we are to be is not apparent yet, but we do know that when he appears, we are to be like him — for we are to see him as he is. ³ And everyone who rests this hope on him, purifies himself as he is pure.

⁴ they will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.