GUIDE TO THE SCRIPTURES
Pure, Purity
See also Clean and Unclean; Sanctification

Free from sin or guilt; blameless. A person becomes pure when his thoughts and actions are clean in every way. A person who has committed sin can become pure through faith in Jesus Christ, repentance, and receiving the ordinances of the gospel.

He that hath clean hands and a pure heart shall receive the Lord's blessings, Ps. 24: 3-5. Be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the Lord, Isa. 52: 11 (D&C 133: 4-5). Blessed are the pure in heart, Matt. 5: 8 (3 Ne. 12: 8). Whatsoever things are pure, think on these things, Philip. 4: 8 (A of F 1: 13). All ye that are pure in heart, lift up your heads and receive the pleasing word of God, Jacob 3: 2-3. Can ye look up to God at that day with a pure heart and clean hands? Alma 5: 19. Being pure and spotless before God, they could not look upon sin save it were with abhorrence, Alma 13: 12. Be purified even as Christ is pure, Moro. 7: 48 (Morm. 9: 6). Christ will reserve unto himself a pure people, D&C 43: 14. The Lord commanded that a house be built in Zion in which the pure shall see God, D&C 97: 10-17. This is Zion-the pure in heart, D&C 97: 21.