Isaiah 1:16-19
16 aWash yourselves; make yourselves clean;remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes;
bcease to do evil,
17learn to do good;
cseek justice,
correct oppression;
dbring justice to the fatherless,
plead the widow’s cause.
18 “Come now, elet us reason ▼
▼Or dispute
together, says the Lord:though your sins are like scarlet,
they shall be as gwhite as snow;
though they are red like crimson,
they shall become like wool.
19 hIf you are willing and obedient,
you shall eat the good of the land;
Isaiah 55:7
7let the wicked forsake his way,and the unrighteous man his thoughts;
let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him,
and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Ezekiel 18:31
31 iCast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed, and jmake yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! kWhy will you die, O house of Israel?Matthew 12:33
A Tree Is Known by Its Fruit
33 l“Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, mfor the tree is known by its fruit.Matthew 15:19-20
19For out of the heart come nevil thoughts, omurder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, pslander. 20 qThese are what defile a person. But rto eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone.”Matthew 23:26-27
26You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of sthe cup and the plate, that the outside also may be clean.27 t“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like uwhitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people’s bones and vall uncleanness.
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