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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 at his heart.
¹²And God looked upon the earth, and, behold it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth. (Gen. 6:5‑6,12)

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Job 15:14‑16• ¹⁴What [is] man that he should be clean,{HR}And one born of woman that he should be righteous?
¹⁵Behold, in his holy ones he trusteth not,{HR}And the heavens are not clean in his eyes;
¹⁶How much less the abominable and corrupt,{HR}Man, that drinketh iniquity like water. (Job 15:14‑16)

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Psa. 14:2‑3• ²Jehovah hath looked down from heaven upon the sons of men{HR}To see if there were [one] acting wisely, seeking God.
³They all have turned aside, they have together been corrupted;{HR}There is none doing good, there is not even one. (Psa. 14:2‑3)

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Eccl. 7:29• ²⁹Behold, this only have I found,{HR}That God made man upright;{HR}But they have sought out many inventions. (Eccl. 7:29)

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Eccl. 9:3• ³This is an evil in all that is done under the sun,{HR}That there is one event unto all:{HR}Yea also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil,{HR}And madness is in [their] heart while they live;{HR}And, after that, they go to the dead. (Eccl. 9:3)

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1 Cor. 3:3• ³for ye are yet carnal. For whereas emulation and strife [are] among you, 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 that now worketh in the sons of disobedience;
³among whom we all also had our conversation once in the lusts of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were children, by nature, of wrath even as the rest; (Eph. 2:2‑3)

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Titus 3:3• ³For at one time even we were foolish, disobedient, gone astray, in slavery to divers lusts and pleasures, passing time in malice and envy, abominable, hating one another. (Titus 3:3)

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Prov. 15:26• ²⁶Evil thoughts [are] an abomination to Jehovah;{HR}But pure words [are] pleasant. (Prov. 15:26)

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Prov. 30:12• ¹²{i}There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes,{HR}Yet are not washed from their filthiness;{HR}{/i} (Prov. 30:12)

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Dan. 12:10• ¹⁰Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; 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• ³³{i}Either 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.{/i} (Matt. 12:33)

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

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Titus 1:15• ¹⁵To the pure all things [are] pure; but to the defiled and unfaithful [is] nothing pure; but both their mind and their conscience have been 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 people for his own possession, zealous of good works. (Titus 2:14)

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Titus 3:5• ⁵not by works in righteousness which we ourselves did, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Spirit, (Titus 3:5)

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1 Peter 1:22‑23• ²²purified your souls as ye have in your obedience to the truth unto brotherly affection unfeigned, love one another out of a pure heart fervently,
²³having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible, through God's living and abiding word. (1 Peter 1:22‑23)

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

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1 John 3:3• ³And every one that hath this hope on him purifieth 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.

W. Kelly Translation

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Very crooked [is] a guilty man’s way;{HR}But [as for] the pure, his work [is] right.