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Psalms 24:4

Psalms 24:4 is verse 4 of Psalms chapter 24, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear deceitfully.

Or to falsehood or to vanity

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King James Version

He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

World English Bible

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

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Psalms 24:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible

2 For He has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters.

3 Who may ascend the hill of the LORD? Who may stand in His holy place?

4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear deceitfully.

5 He will receive blessing from the LORD and vindication from the God of his salvation.

6 Such is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek Your face, O God of Jacob. Selah

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Psalms 18:20

The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; He has repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.

Psalms 26:6

I wash my hands in innocence that I may go about Your altar, O LORD,

Job 9:30

If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,

Job 17:9

Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.

Isaiah 1:15

When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.

Isaiah 1:16

Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!

Isaiah 33:15

He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, who refuses gain from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears against murderous plots and shuts his eyes tightly against evil—

Isaiah 33:16

he will dwell on the heights; the mountain fortress will be his refuge; his food will be provided and his water assured.

1 Timothy 2:8

Therefore I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands, without anger or dissension.

James 4:8

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

Psalms 51:10

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

Psalms 73:1

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

Genesis 6:5

Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.

Proverbs 20:9

Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure; I am cleansed from my sin”?

Jeremiah 4:14

Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?

Matthew 5:8

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

Acts 15:9

He made no distinction between us and them, for He cleansed their hearts by faith.

2 Corinthians 7:1

Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Revelation 21:1

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.

Revelation 21:2

I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

Revelation 21:3

And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying: “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man, and He will dwell with them. They will be His people, and God Himself will be with them as their God.

Revelation 21:4

‘He will wipe away every tear from their eyes,’ and there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the former things have passed away.”

Revelation 21:27

But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

Revelation 22:14

Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates.

Revelation 22:15

But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

Psalms 25:1

To You, O LORD, I lift up my soul;

Psalms 143:8

Let me hear Your loving devotion in the morning, for I have put my trust in You. Teach me the way I should walk, for to You I lift up my soul.

Deuteronomy 4:19

When you look to the heavens and see the sun and moon and stars—all the host of heaven—do not be enticed to bow down and worship what the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.

Ezekiel 18:6

He does not eat at the mountain or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her period.

Ezekiel 18:15

He does not eat at the mountain or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife.

Acts 14:15

“Men, why are you doing this? We too are only men, human like you. We are bringing you good news that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth and sea and everything in them.

Psalms 15:4

who despises the vile but honors those who fear the LORD, who does not revise a costly oath,

Jeremiah 5:2

Although they say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ they are swearing falsely.”

Jeremiah 7:9

Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,

Jeremiah 7:10

and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue with all these abominations’?

Zechariah 5:3

Then he told me, “This is the curse that is going out over the face of all the land, for according to one side of the scroll, every thief will be removed; and according to the other side, every perjurer will be removed.

Zechariah 5:4

I will send it out, declares the LORD of Hosts, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of him who swears falsely by My name. It will remain inside his house and destroy it, down to its timbers and stones.”

Malachi 3:5

“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.

1 Timothy 1:10

for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave traders and liars and perjurers, and for anyone else who is averse to sound teaching

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