Proverbs 20:9 Who can say, I have made my heart clean The heart of than is naturally unclean, the mind, conscience, understanding, will, and affection...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 10. Create. What! has sin so destroyed us, that the Creator must be called in again? What ruin then doth evil work among mankind! Cre...
Overview - Psalms 73 1?The prophet, prevailing in a temptation, 2?shews the occasion thereof, the prosperity of the wicked; 13?the wound given thereb...
Psalms 24:4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart Though clean hands are mentioned first, as being more obvious to view, and better known, and mo...
Leviticus 8:6 And Moses brought Aaron and his sons To the laver which was in the court of the tabernacle and washed them with water; to show that they...
Psalms 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God Which was now defiled with sin, and of which being convinced, he was led more and more to see the impur...
Heart, character of the renewed Prepared to seek God 2?Chronicles 19:3 ; Ezra 7:10 ; Psalms 10:17 Fixed on God Psalms 57:7 ; 112:7 Joyful ...
Overview - Psalms 51 1?David prays for remission of sins, whereof he makes a deep confession. 6?He prays for sanctification. 16?God delights not in s...
Psalms 73:1 Truly God is good to Israel To Israel, literally understood; in choosing them to be his people above all people on earth; in bringing them...
Matthew 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart Not in the head; for men may have pure notions and impure hearts; not in the hand, or action, or in outward ...
Proverbs 19:8 He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul Wisdom and knowledge in things natural and civil; and especially in things divine, spiritual,...
Job 14:4 Who can bring a clean [thing] out of an clean? &c.] Either produce a clean person from an unclean one: it is not to be expected that one, per...
NOTE B.?Chap. IV The Law written in the Heart The thought of the law written in the heart sometimes causes difficulty and discouragement, because b...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 4. He that hath clean hands. Outward, practical holiness is a very precious mark of grace. To wash in water with Pilate is nothing, b...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 9. The fear of the Lord is clean. The doctrine of truth is here described by its spiritual effect, viz., inward piety, or the fear of...
Ezekiel 36:25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you Not baptismal water, as Jerom; an ordinance indeed of the Gospel, and to which the Jews will s...
Job 9:30 If I wash myself with snow water As it came from heaven, or flowed from the mountains covered with snow, as Lebanon, see ( Jeremiah 18:14 ) ;...
Proverbs 22:11 He that loveth pureness of heart Though man's heart is naturally impure, and all that is in it, the thoughts, affections, mind, conscie...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 8. In this verse we are taught that if we would have the Lord hear our voice, we must be careful to respond to his voice. The true he...
?EXPOSITION Verse 112. I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, even unto the end. He was not half inclined to virtue, but heartily i...