Psalms 24:4
He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
In Context
3Who may ascend to the LORD’s hill? Who may stand in his holy place?
5He shall receive a blessing from the LORD, righteousness from the God of his salvation.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:19and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which the LORD your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.
Job 17:9Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
Psalms 18:20The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands, he has recompensed me.
Psalms 26:6I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, LORD,
Psalms 51:12Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.
Psalms 143:8Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 24:4-7
The Character of True Israelites. 3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord ? or who shall stand in his holy place? 4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. 5 He shall receive the blessing from the Lord , and righteousness from the God of his salvation. 6 This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah. From this world, and the fulness thereof, the psalmist's meditations rise, of a sudden to the great… Read the whole commentary →