He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.
⛓ Read Psalm 24 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The goal of the charge, 'love out of a pure heart,' draws on the cultic ideal of the one with 'clean hands and a pure heart' who may ascend the LORD's hill. Paul makes inward purity the aim of sound teaching. The phrase 'pure heart' is a direct OT moral-cultic category.
High confidence'Clean hands and a pure heart' is the temple-entrance requirement that James fuses with Isaiah: 'cleanse your hands… purify your hearts.' The pairing of hands and heart is verbally close.
High confidenceCalling on the Lord 'out of a pure heart' echoes the ascent liturgy's requirement of clean hands and a pure heart to stand in God's holy place. The pure-heart qualification for approaching God is the shared demand.
Medium confidenceEcho3
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The 'pure conscience' with which Paul serves echoes the OT ideal of the 'pure heart and clean hands' required to stand before God. The psalm's purity-of-heart standard underlies the conscience language transposed into Pauline interiority.
Medium confidenceThe one who may ascend the temple hill is the clean of hands and pure of heart; the two men 'went up into the temple to pray' and only the contrite one is accepted. The temple-ascent and acceptability motif faintly underlies the scene. Low confidence.
Low confidenceWho has not 'sworn deceitfully' — the false-oath concern of the oath antithesis (and ties to the pure in heart of v.8).
Low confidence