Job 9:30
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30 If I wash myself with soap
and cleanse my hands with lye,(A)
Jeremiah 2:22
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22 Though you wash yourself with lye
and use much soap,
the stain of your guilt is still before me,
says the Lord God.(A)
Psalm 26:6
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6 I wash my hands in innocence
and go around your altar, O Lord,(A)
1 John 1:8
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8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
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Romans 10:3
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3 Not knowing the righteousness of God and seeking to establish their own, they have not submitted to God’s righteousness.(A)
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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)
Isaiah 1:16-18
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16 Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean;
remove your evil deeds
from before my eyes;
cease to do evil;(A)
17 learn to do good;
seek justice;
rescue the oppressed;
defend the orphan;
plead for the widow.(B)
18 Come now, let us argue it out,
says the Lord:
If your sins are like scarlet,
will they become like snow?
If they are red like crimson,
will they become like wool?(C)
Proverbs 28:13
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13 No one who conceals transgressions will prosper,
but one who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.(A)
Job 31:7
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7 if my step has turned aside from the way,
and my heart has followed my eyes,
and if any spot has clung to my hands,(A)
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