I will sprinkle clean water over you to make you clean; from all your impurities and from all your idols I will cleanse you. I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh…
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A clean heart create for me, God; renew within me a steadfast spirit. Do not drive me from before your face, nor take from me your holy spirit. Psalms 51:12-13 NABRE This psalm is a plea to be purified and for a heart to be made clean. The psalm begins…
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Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you of two minds. James 4:8 NABRE James in his letter to Christians is challenging the reader to submit humbly to God. He begins this section with the previous verse…
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Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the land. Matthew 5:5 NABRE Jesus is teaching what has been referred to as the “Sermon on the Mount.” He wants His disciples to know the way to the best life. He starts with a teaching called the “beatitudes,” meaning blessings or…
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But you have given my heart more joy than they have when grain and wine abound. Psalms 4:8 NABRE This is a psalm in which David seems to be trying to allude those out to capture him, particularly Absalom. The previous psalm David calls to God for salvation as he…
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