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Psalms 145:18
The LORD is near all who call out to him, all who call out to him with integrity.
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Malachi 3:7
“ Since the days of your ancestors, you have turned from my statutes; you have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Armies. Yet you ask,“ How can we return?”
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Zechariah 1:3
So tell the people,‘ This is what the LORD of Armies says: Return to me— this is the declaration of the LORD of Armies— and I will return to you, says the LORD of Armies.
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Hebrews 10:22
let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water.
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2 Chronicles 15 2
So he went out to meet Asa and said to him,“ Asa and all Judah and Benjamin, hear me. The LORD is with you when you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you abandon him, he will abandon you.
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Isaiah 55:6-7
Seek the LORD while he may be found; call to him while he is near.Let the wicked one abandon his way and the sinful one his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, so he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will freely forgive.
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1John 3:3
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Hosea 6:1-2
Come, let’s return to the LORD. For he has torn us, and he will heal us; he has wounded us, and he will bind up our wounds.He will revive us after two days, and on the third day he will raise us up so we can live in his presence.
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Ezekiel 36:25-27
I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.I will place my Spirit within you and cause you to follow my statutes and carefully observe my ordinances.
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Psalms 51:6-7
Surely you desire integrity in the inner self, and you teach me wisdom deep within.Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
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Isaiah 1:15-16
When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will refuse to look at you; even if you offer countless prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.“ Wash yourselves. Cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from my sight. Stop doing evil.
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Jeremiah 4:14
Wash the evil from your heart, Jerusalem, so that you will be delivered. How long will you harbor malicious thoughts?
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Hebrews 7:19
( for the law perfected nothing), but a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.
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Ezekiel 18:31
Throw off all the transgressions you have committed, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, house of Israel?
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2 Corinthians 7 1
So then, dear friends, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from every impurity of the flesh and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.
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1 Peter 3 21
Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you( not as the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a good conscience toward God) through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
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1 Chronicles 28 9
“ As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands the intention of every thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you abandon him, he will reject you forever.
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Matthew 23:25-26
“ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside of it may also become clean.
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Psalms 73:28
But as for me, God’s presence is my good. I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, so I can tell about all you do.
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Matthew 12:33
“ Either make the tree good and its fruit will be good, or make the tree bad and its fruit will be bad; for a tree is known by its fruit.
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Psalms 51:10
God, create a clean heart for me and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
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1 Timothy 2 8
Therefore, I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands without anger or argument.
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Psalms 24:4
The one who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not appealed to what is false, and who has not sworn deceitfully.
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1 Peter 1 22
Since you have purified yourselves by your obedience to the truth, so that you show sincere brotherly love for each other, from a pure heart love one another constantly,
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Psalms 18:20
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; he repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.
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Isaiah 29:13
The Lord said: These people approach me with their speeches to honor me with lip-service, yet their hearts are far from me, and human rules direct their worship of me.
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Job 17:9
Yet the righteous person will hold to his way, and the one whose hands are clean will grow stronger.
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James 1:8
being double-minded and unstable in all his ways.
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Job 16:17
although my hands are free from violence and my prayer is pure.
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Psalms 26:6
I wash my hands in innocence and go around your altar, LORD,
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Luke 11:39-40
But the Lord said to him,“ Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and evil.Fools! Didn’t he who made the outside make the inside too?
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Acts 15:9
He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.
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Genesis 18:23
Abraham stepped forward and said,“ Will you really sweep away the righteous with the wicked?
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Matthew 15:2
“ Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat.”
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Jeremiah 4:11
“ At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem,‘ A searing wind blows from the barren heights in the wilderness on the way to my dear people. It comes not to winnow or to sift;
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Job 9:30
If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,
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Isaiah 13:15
Whoever is found will be stabbed, and whoever is caught will die by the sword.
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Matthew 27:24
When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that a riot was starting instead, he took some water, washed his hands in front of the crowd, and said,“ I am innocent of this man’s blood. See to it yourselves!”
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Psalms 73:13
Did I purify my heart and wash my hands in innocence for nothing?