Job 9:30
New Living Translation
30 Even if I were to wash myself with soap
and clean my hands with lye,
Jeremiah 2:22
New Living Translation
22 No amount of soap or lye can make you clean.
I still see the stain of your guilt.
I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken!
Psalm 26:6
New Living Translation
6 I wash my hands to declare my innocence.
I come to your altar, O Lord,
1 John 1:8
New Living Translation
8 If we claim we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and not living in the truth.
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Romans 10:3
New Living Translation
3 For they don’t understand God’s way of making people right with himself. Refusing to accept God’s way, they cling to their own way of getting right with God by trying to keep the law.
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Jeremiah 4:14
New Living Translation
14 O Jerusalem, cleanse your heart
that you may be saved.
How long will you harbor
your evil thoughts?
Isaiah 1:16-18
New Living Translation
16 Wash yourselves and be clean!
Get your sins out of my sight.
Give up your evil ways.
17 Learn to do good.
Seek justice.
Help the oppressed.
Defend the cause of orphans.
Fight for the rights of widows.
18 “Come now, let’s settle this,”
says the Lord.
“Though your sins are like scarlet,
I will make them as white as snow.
Though they are red like crimson,
I will make them as white as wool.
Proverbs 28:13
New Living Translation
13 People who conceal their sins will not prosper,
but if they confess and turn from them, they will receive mercy.
Job 31:7
New Living Translation
7 If I have strayed from his pathway,
or if my heart has lusted for what my eyes have seen,
or if I am guilty of any other sin,
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