James 4:8
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8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.(A)
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Psalm 145:18
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18 The Lord is near to all who call on him,
to all who call on him in truth.(A)
Malachi 3:7
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7 Ever since the days of your ancestors you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. But you say, “How shall we return?”(A)
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Zechariah 1:3
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3 Therefore say to them: Thus says the Lord of hosts: Return to me, says the Lord of hosts, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts.(A)
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Hebrews 10:22
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22 let us approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.(A)
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Isaiah 55:6-7
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6 Seek the Lord while he may be found;
call upon him while he is near;(A)
7 let the wicked forsake their way
and the unrighteous their thoughts;
let them return to the Lord, that he may have mercy on them,
and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.(B)
2 Chronicles 15:2
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2 He went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: The Lord is with you while you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you abandon him, he will abandon you.(A)
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1 John 3:3
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3 And all who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.
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Hosea 6:1-2
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A Call to Repentance
6 “Come, let us return to the Lord,
for it is he who has torn, and he will heal us;
he has struck down, and he will bind us up.(A)
2 After two days he will revive us;
on the third day he will raise us up,
that we may live before him.
Psalm 51:6-7
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6 You desire truth in the inward being;[a]
therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.(A)
7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;
wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.(B)
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Ezekiel 36:25-27
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25 I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you.(A) 26 A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you, and I will remove from your body the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.(B) 27 I will put my spirit within you and make you follow my statutes and be careful to observe my ordinances.(C)
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Jeremiah 4:14
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14 O Jerusalem, wash your heart clean of wickedness
so that you may be saved.
How long shall your evil schemes
lodge within you?(A)
Hebrews 7:19
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19 (for the law made nothing perfect); there is, on the other hand, the introduction of a better hope through which we approach God.(A)
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Psalm 51:10
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Isaiah 1:15-16
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15 When you stretch out your hands,
I will hide my eyes from you;
even though you make many prayers,
I will not listen;
your hands are full of blood.(A)
16 Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean;
remove your evil deeds
from before my eyes;
cease to do evil;(B)
Ezekiel 18:31
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31 Cast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed against me, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why will you die, O house of Israel?(A)
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Psalm 73:28
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28 But for me it is good to be near God;
I have made the Lord God my refuge,
to tell of all your works.(A)
2 Corinthians 7:1
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7 Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of flesh and of spirit, making holiness perfect in the fear of God.(A)
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1 Chronicles 28:9
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9 “And you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve him with single mind and willing heart, for the Lord searches every mind and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will abandon you forever.(A)
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1 Peter 3:21
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21 And baptism, which this prefigured, now saves you—not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for[a] a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,(A)
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Matthew 23:25-26
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25 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. 26 You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and of the plate,[a] so that the outside also may become clean.
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Job 17:9
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9 Yet the righteous hold to their way,
and they who have clean hands grow stronger and stronger.(A)
1 Timothy 2:8
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8 I desire, then, that in every place the men should pray, lifting up holy hands without anger or argument,
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Matthew 12:33
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A Tree and Its Fruit
33 “Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for the tree is known by its fruit.(A)
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Isaiah 29:13
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13 The Lord said:
Because these people draw near with their mouths
and honor me with their lips,
while their hearts are far from me
and their worship of me is a human commandment learned by rote,(A)
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