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Matthew 5:8
New American Bible (Revised Edition)

8 [a]Blessed are the clean of heart,(A)
    for they will see God.

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Footnotes

  1. 5:8 Cf. Ps 24:4. Only one “whose heart is clean” can take part in the temple worship. To be with God in the temple is described in Ps 42:3 as “beholding his face,” but here the promise to the clean of heart is that they will see God not in the temple but in the coming kingdom.
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