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25 “Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. Your filth will be washed away, and you will no longer worship idols.

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22 let us go right into the presence of God with sincere hearts fully trusting him. For our guilty consciences have been sprinkled with Christ’s blood to make us clean, and our bodies have been washed with pure water.

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Jesus replied, “I assure you, no one can enter the Kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit.[a]

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  1. 3:5 Or and spirit. The Greek word for Spirit can also be translated wind; see 3:8.

he saved us, not because of the righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He washed away our sins, giving us a new birth and new life through the Holy Spirit.[a] He generously poured out the Spirit upon us through Jesus Christ our Savior.

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  1. 3:5 Greek He saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit.

I will cleanse them of their sins against me and forgive all their sins of rebellion.

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The Lord will wash the filth from beautiful Zion[a]
    and cleanse Jerusalem of its bloodstains
    with the hot breath of fiery judgment.

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  1. 4:4 Or from the women of Zion; Hebrew reads from the daughters of Zion.

But if we are living in the light, as God is in the light, then we have fellowship with each other, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

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Purify me from my sins,[a] and I will be clean;
    wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

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  1. 51:7 Hebrew Purify me with the hyssop branch.

19 For after Moses had read each of God’s commandments to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats,[a] along with water, and sprinkled both the book of God’s law and all the people, using hyssop branches and scarlet wool.

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  1. 9:19 Some manuscripts do not include and goats.

A Fountain of Cleansing

13 “On that day a fountain will be opened for the dynasty of David and for the people of Jerusalem, a fountain to cleanse them from all their sins and impurity.

“And on that day,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, “I will erase idol worship throughout the land, so that even the names of the idols will be forgotten. I will remove from the land both the false prophets and the spirit of impurity that came with them.

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14 He gave his life to free us from every kind of sin, to cleanse us, and to make us his very own people, totally committed to doing good deeds.

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23 They will never again pollute themselves with their idols[a] and vile images and rebellion, for I will save them from their sinful apostasy.[b] I will cleanse them. Then they will truly be my people, and I will be their God.

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  1. 37:23a The Hebrew term (literally round things) probably alludes to dung.
  2. 37:23b As in many Hebrew manuscripts and Greek version; Masoretic Text reads from all their dwelling places where they sinned.

Wash me clean from my guilt.
    Purify me from my sin.

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26 to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s word.[a] 27 He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault.

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  1. 5:26 Greek washed by water with the word.

Do this by sprinkling them with the water of purification, and have them shave their entire body and wash their clothing. Then they will be ceremonially clean.

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14 And I said to him, “Sir, you are the one who knows.”

Then he said to me, “These are the ones who died in[a] the great tribulation.[b] They have washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb and made them white.

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  1. 7:14a Greek who came out of.
  2. 7:14b Or the great suffering.

“O Israel,[a] stay away from idols!
    I am the one who answers your prayers and cares for you.
I am like a tree that is always green;
    all your fruit comes from me.”

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  1. 14:8 Hebrew Ephraim, referring to the northern kingdom of Israel.

29 I will cleanse you of your filthy behavior. I will give you good crops of grain, and I will send no more famines on the land.

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17 “Son of man, when the people of Israel were living in their own land, they defiled it by the evil way they lived. To me their conduct was as unclean as a woman’s menstrual cloth.

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15 And he will startle[a] many nations.
    Kings will stand speechless in his presence.
For they will see what they had not been told;
    they will understand what they had not heard about.[b]

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  1. 52:15a Or cleanse.
  2. 52:15b Greek version reads Those who have never been told about him will see, / and those who have never heard of him will understand. Compare Rom 15:21.

12 They are pure in their own eyes,
    but they are filthy and unwashed.

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13 Under the old system, the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer could cleanse people’s bodies from ceremonial impurity. 14 Just think how much more the blood of Christ will purify our consciences from sinful deeds[a] so that we can worship the living God. For by the power of the eternal Spirit, Christ offered himself to God as a perfect sacrifice for our sins.

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  1. 9:14 Greek from dead works.

11 Some of you were once like that. But you were cleansed; you were made holy; you were made right with God by calling on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

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16 What are you waiting for? Get up and be baptized. Have your sins washed away by calling on the name of the Lord.’

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Assyria cannot save us,
    nor can our warhorses.
Never again will we say to the idols we have made,
    ‘You are our gods.’
No, in you alone
    do the orphans find mercy.”

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