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Prov. 21:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.

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Gen. 6:5‑6,12• ⁵And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of Man was great on the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil continually.
⁶And Jehovah repented that he had made Man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.
¹²And God looked upon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted its way on the earth. (Gen. 6:5‑6,12)

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Job 15:14‑16• ¹⁴What is man, that he should be pure? and he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
¹⁵Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight:
¹⁶How much less the abominable and corrupt,--man, that drinketh unrighteousness like water! (Job 15:14‑16)

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Psa. 14:2‑3• ²Jehovah looked down from the heavens upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.
³They have all gone aside, they are together become corrupt: there is none that doeth good, not even one. (Psa. 14:2‑3)

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Eccl. 7:29• ²⁹Only see this which I have found: that God made man upright, but they have sought out many devices. (Eccl. 7:29)

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Eccl. 9:3• ³This is an evil among all that is done under the sun, that one thing befalleth all: yea, also the heart of the children of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live; and after that, they have to go to the dead. (Eccl. 9:3)

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1 Cor. 3:3• ³for ye are yet carnal. For whereas there are among you emulation and strife, are ye not carnal, and walk according to man? (1 Cor. 3:3)

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Eph. 2:2‑3• ²in which ye once walked according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience:
³among whom *we* also all once had our conversation in the lusts of our flesh, doing what the flesh and the thoughts willed to do, and were children, by nature, of wrath, even as the rest: (Eph. 2:2‑3)

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Titus 3:3• ³For we were once ourselves also without intelligence, disobedient, wandering in error, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. (Titus 3:3)

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Prov. 15:26• ²⁶The thoughts of the evil man are an abomination to Jehovah; but pure words are pleasant. (Prov. 15:26)

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Prov. 30:12• ¹²there is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness; (Prov. 30:12)

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Dan. 12:10• ¹⁰Many shall be purified, and be made white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand. (Dan. 12:10)

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Matt. 5:8• ⁸Blessed the pure in heart, for *they* shall see God. (Matt. 5:8)

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Matt. 12:33• ³³Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt. For from the fruit the tree is known. (Matt. 12:33)

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Acts 15:9• ⁹and put no difference between us and them, having purified their hearts by faith. (Acts 15:9)

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Titus 1:15• ¹⁵All things are pure to the pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled. (Titus 1:15)

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Titus 2:14• ¹⁴who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all lawlessness, and purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous for good works. (Titus 2:14)

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Titus 3:5• ⁵not on the principle of works which have been done in righteousness which *we* had done, but according to his own mercy he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, (Titus 3:5)

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1 Peter 1:22‑23• ²²Having purified your souls by obedience to the truth to unfeigned brotherly love, love one another out of a pure heart fervently;
²³being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the living and abiding word of God. (1 Peter 1:22‑23)

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1 John 2:29• ²⁹If ye know that he is righteous, know that every one who practises righteousness is begotten of him. (1 John 2:29)

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1 John 3:3• ³And every one that has this hope in him purifies himself, even as *he* is pure. (1 John 3:3)

• It is invariably a sign that something is radically wrong at bottom when a person’s path is crooked, and he has to be continually excusing and explaining. He who walks with God will be above reproach; for he will shun every form of evil. (“Proverbs Twenty-One” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Very crooked is the way of a guilty man; but as for the pure, his work is upright.