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)
Proverbs 4:18
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18 But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn,
which shines brighter and brighter until full day.(A)
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)
2 Corinthians 12:9-10
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9 but he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power[a] is made perfect in weakness.” So I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.(A) 10 Therefore I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities for the sake of Christ, for whenever I am weak, then I am strong.(B)
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Job 22:30
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30 He will deliver even those who are guilty;
they will escape because of the cleanness of your hands.”[a](A)
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Isaiah 40:29-31
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29 He gives power to the faint
and strengthens the powerless.(A)
30 Even youths will faint and be weary,
and the young will fall exhausted,
31 but those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings like eagles;
they shall run and not be weary;
they shall walk and not faint.(B)
Proverbs 14:16
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16 The wise are cautious and turn away from evil,
but the fool throws off restraint and is careless.(A)
Psalm 84:7
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7 They go from strength to strength;
the God of gods will be seen in Zion.(A)
Psalm 84:11
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11 For the Lord God is a sun and shield;
he bestows favor and honor.
No good thing does the Lord withhold
from those who walk uprightly.(A)
Psalm 73:13
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13 All in vain I have kept my heart clean
and washed my hands in innocence.(A)
Psalm 26:6
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6 I wash my hands in innocence
and go around your altar, O Lord,(A)
Psalm 24:4
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4 Those who have clean hands and pure hearts,
who do not lift up their souls to what is false
and do not swear deceitfully.(A)
Genesis 20:5
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5 Did he not himself say to me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ I did this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands.”(A)
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1 John 2:19
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19 They went out from us, but they did not belong to us, for if they had belonged to us they would have remained[a] with us. But by going out they made it plain that none of them belongs to us.(A)
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1 Peter 1:5
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5 who are being protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.(A)
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Isaiah 35:8-10
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8 A highway shall be there,[a]
and it shall be called the Holy Way;
the unclean shall not travel on it,[b]
but it shall be for God’s people;[c]
no traveler, not even fools, shall go astray.(A)
9 No lion shall be there,
nor shall any ravenous beast come up on it;
they shall not be found there,
but the redeemed shall walk there.(B)
10 And the ransomed of the Lord shall return
and come to Zion with singing;
everlasting joy shall be upon their heads;
they shall obtain joy and gladness,
and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.(C)
Mark 7:2
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2 they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them.
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