Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
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Psalms 51:8-12
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51:10-12 God’s Spirit renews and recreates the human spirit.
51:10 A loyal spirit yields the inner qualities of constancy and perseverance.
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And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
And 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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