99 Bible Verses about Impure Thoughts (KJV)

Here are 99 Bible verses about impure thoughts, curated from both the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, King James Version, arranged from most to least relevant.

Romans 12:2 KJV

²And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

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Philippians 4:8 KJV

⁸Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

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1 Corinthians 10:13 KJV

¹³There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

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James 4:7 KJV

⁷Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

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Matthew 5:28 KJV

²⁸But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

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2 Timothy 2:22 KJV

²²Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

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Romans 13:14 KJV

¹⁴But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

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Galatians 5:16 KJV

¹⁶This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

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Job 31:1 KJV

¹I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

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1 John 1:9 KJV

⁹If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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Galatians 5:19-21 KJV

¹⁹Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, ²⁰Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, ²¹Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of …

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1 Peter 5:8 KJV

⁸Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

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Proverbs 4:23 KJV

²³Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

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Matthew 5:27-28 KJV

²⁷Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: ²⁸But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

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2 Corinthians 10:5 KJV

⁵Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

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John 14:15 KJV

¹⁵If ye love me, keep my commandments.

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Titus 2:12 KJV

¹²Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

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Hebrews 4:13 KJV

¹³Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

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Romans 12:9 KJV

⁹Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

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1 John 2:6 KJV

⁶He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.

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Philippians 3:7-9 KJV

⁷But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. ⁸Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, ⁹And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of …

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1 John 1:8 KJV

⁸If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

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2 Timothy 1:7 KJV

⁷For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

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2 Corinthians 10:3-5 KJV

³For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: ⁴(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) ⁵Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

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Hebrews 4:12 KJV

¹²For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

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Romans 5:8 KJV

⁸But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

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Proverbs 23:7 KJV

⁷For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.

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John 3:16 KJV

¹⁶For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

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Ephesians 2:8-9 KJV

⁸For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: ⁹Not of works, lest any man should boast.

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Romans 6:23 KJV

²³For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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Ephesians 6:12 KJV

¹²For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

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Romans 8:7 KJV

⁷Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

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2 Timothy 2:15 KJV

¹⁵Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

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1 Corinthians 6:19 KJV

¹⁹What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

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Romans 3:23 KJV

²³For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

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John 14:6 KJV

⁶Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

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Psalm 101:3 KJV

³I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.

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Hebrews 13:4 KJV

⁴Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

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Colossians 3:5 KJV

⁵Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

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Ephesians 6:17 KJV

¹⁷And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

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Ephesians 4:18 KJV

¹⁸Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

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John 10:10 KJV

¹⁰The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

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Hebrews 10:24-25 KJV

²⁴And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: ²⁵Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

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John 14:1-31 KJV

¹Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. ²In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. ³And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. ⁴And whither I go ye know, and the way ye …

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Hebrews 3:1 KJV

¹Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;

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2 Peter 3:9 KJV

⁹The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

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James 1:14-15 KJV

¹⁴But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. ¹⁵Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

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Matthew 6:33 KJV

³³But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

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1 John 1:7 KJV

⁷But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

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Romans 10:13 KJV

¹³For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

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Luke 1:37 KJV

³⁷For with God nothing shall be impossible.

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Isaiah 26:3 KJV

³Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

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Galatians 2:20 KJV

²⁰I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

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Romans 8:1 KJV

¹There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

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Hebrews 4:16 KJV

¹⁶Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

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Daniel 1:8 KJV

⁸But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

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John 3:3 KJV

³Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

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Psalm 139:2 KJV

²Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.

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Philippians 4:7 KJV

⁷And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

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Psalm 94:19 KJV

¹⁹In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.

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2 Corinthians 10:4-5 KJV

⁴(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) ⁵Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

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Romans 8:6 KJV

⁶For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

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Matthew 26:41 KJV

⁴¹Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

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Genesis 1:1 KJV

¹In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

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1 Peter 5:8-9 KJV

⁸Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: ⁹Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

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2 Timothy 3:16 KJV

¹⁶All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

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Colossians 3:2 KJV

²Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

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Philippians 2:13 KJV

¹³For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

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Ephesians 4:22-24 KJV

²²That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; ²³And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; ²⁴And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

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Romans 8:28 KJV

²⁸And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

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Romans 8:5 KJV

⁵For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

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John 14:7 KJV

⁷If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.

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Matthew 23:26 KJV

²⁶Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.

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Isaiah 55:7 KJV

⁷Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

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1 John 2:4 KJV

⁴He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

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1 Peter 2:21 KJV

²¹For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:

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Acts 2:38 KJV

³⁸Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

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John 3:16-17 KJV

¹⁶For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. ¹⁷For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

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Hebrews 12:15 KJV

¹⁵Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

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Hebrews 12:2 KJV

²Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

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Hebrews 11:1 KJV

¹Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

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Philippians 4:19 KJV

¹⁹But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

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Philippians 4:13 KJV

¹³I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

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Philippians 4:6-7 KJV

⁶Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. ⁷And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

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Ephesians 3:20 KJV

²⁰Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

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2 Corinthians 10:3 KJV

³For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:

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2 Corinthians 3:14 KJV

¹⁴But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.

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1 Corinthians 15:57 KJV

⁵⁷But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Romans 1:16 KJV

¹⁶For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

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John 14:25 KJV

²⁵These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you.

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John 14:24 KJV

²⁴He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me.

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John 14:16 KJV

¹⁶And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;

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John 14:13 KJV

¹³And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

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John 14:11 KJV

¹¹Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake.

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John 14:1 KJV

¹Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

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Matthew 15:11 KJV

¹¹Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.

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Matthew 11:28 KJV

²⁸Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

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Matthew 11:28-30 KJV

²⁸Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. ²⁹Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. ³⁰For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

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Matthew 5:6 KJV

⁶Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

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