If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him. {ye know that every: or, know ye etc.} {is born: Gr. has been born}

And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

For ye are yet carnal: for whereas {there is} among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? {divisions: or, factions} {as men: Gr. according to man?}

The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, {and} seek God.

Whose ways {are} crooked, and {they} froward in their paths:

Many 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.

And GOD saw that the wickedness of man {was} great in the earth, and {that} every imagination of the thoughts of his heart {was} only evil continually. {every...: or, the whole imagination: the Hebrew word signifieth not only the imagination, but also the purposes and desires} {continually: Heb. every day}

Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by {his} fruit.

This {is} an evil among all {things} that are done under the sun, that {there is} one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness {is} in their heart while they live, and after that {they go} to the dead.

And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

Unto the pure all things {are} pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving {is} nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.

Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;

And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, {and} hating one another.

Blessed {are} the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

{There is} a generation {that are} pure in their own eyes, and {yet} is not washed from their filthiness.

What {is} man, that he should be clean? and {he which is} born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

The thoughts of the wicked {are} an abomination to the LORD: but {the words} of the pure {are} pleasant words. {pleasant...: Heb. words of pleasantness}

Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, {see that ye} love one another with a pure heart fervently:

For my thoughts {are} not your thoughts, neither {are} your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

Whose ways {are} crooked, and {they} froward in their paths:

Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work {be} pure, and whether {it be} right.

Frowardness {is} in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord. {soweth: Heb. casteth forth}

The way of the wicked {is} an abomination unto the LORD: but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness.