Isaiah 1:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove your evil deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil; More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes! Cease to do evil, American Standard Version (1901) Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; Common English Bible Wash! Be clean! Remove your ugly deeds from my sight. Put an end to such evil; Catholic Public Domain Version Wash, become clean, take away the evil of your intentions from my eyes. Cease to act perversely. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes: cease to do perversely, |
Yet the Lord warned Israel and Judah by every prophet and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the law that I commanded your ancestors and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”
To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil.
Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing; go out from the midst of it; purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the Lord.
Now, therefore, say to the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: Thus says the Lord: Look, I am a potter shaping evil against you and devising a plan against you. Turn now, all of you, from your evil way, and amend your ways and your doings.
when they said, “Turn now, every one of you, from your evil way and wicked doings, and you will remain on the land that the Lord has given to you and your ancestors from of old and forever;
It may be that they will listen and will turn from their evil way, that I may change my mind about the disaster that I intend to bring on them because of their evil doings.
I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, sending them persistently, saying, “Turn now every one of you from your evil way, and amend your doings, and do not go after other gods to serve them, and then you shall live in the land that I gave to you and your ancestors.” But you did not incline your ear or obey me.
O Jerusalem, wash your heart clean of wickedness so that you may be saved. How long shall your evil schemes lodge within you?
Hate evil and love good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the Lord, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
Humans and animals shall be covered with sackcloth, and they shall cry mightily to God. All shall turn from their evil ways and from the violence that is in their hands.
On that day a fountain shall be opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity.
Were not these the words that the Lord proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, along with the towns around it, and when the Negeb and the Shephelah were inhabited?”
And now why do you delay? Get up, be baptized, and have your sins washed away, calling on his name.’
Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of flesh and of spirit, making holiness perfect in the fear of God.
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice and all guile, insincerity, envy, and all slander.
let them turn away from evil and do good; let them seek peace and pursue it.
I said to him, “Sir, you are the one who knows.” Then he said to me, “These are they who have come out of the great ordeal; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.