Main Idea: Guarding our motivations, thoughts, words, and actions according to God’s Word allows believers to live a pure life that pleases the Lord.

• 9 How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word.
  • Proverbs 9:1–6, 13–18

Purity is Found in Guarding Your Motivations According to the Word

• 10a, 11 With my whole heart I seek you;... I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you. 
  • Jeremiah 17:9
• 14 In the way of your testimonies I delight as much as in all riches.
  • Psalm 19:7–11

Purity is Found in Guarding Your Thoughts According to the Word

• 12 Blessed are you, O Lord; teach me your statutes!
  • Psalm 86:11
• 15, 16 I will meditate on your precepts and fix my eyes on your ways. I will delight in your statutes; I will not forget your word.
  • Joshua 1:8
  • Philippians 4:8

Purity is Found in Guarding Your Words According to the Word

• 13 With my lips I declare all the rules of your mouth.
  • Proverbs 18:21
  • Luke 6:43–45

Purity is Found in Guarding Your Actions According to the Word

• 10b let me not wander from your commandments!
  • Proverbs 6:20–23

So What?

• The command for every Christ-follower is a life of purity, and He has provided His word in order that we might live pure lives.
  • Romans 12:1, 2