Isaiah 1:18

Bible in Basic English 1965

Come now, and let us have an argument together, says the Lord: how may your sins which are red like blood be white as snow? how may their dark purple seem like wool?

Cross References

Job 9:33

There is no one to give a decision between us, who might have control over us.

Psalm 51:7

Make me free from sin with hyssop: let me be washed whiter than snow.

Psalm 51:9

Let your face be turned from my wrongdoing, and take away all my sins.

Isaiah 1:23

Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.

Isaiah 3:13

The Lord is ready to take up his cause against his people, and is about to come forward as their judge.

Isaiah 41:1

Come quietly before me, O sea-lands, and let the peoples get together their strength: let them come near; then let them say what they have to say: let us put forward our cause against one another.

Isaiah 41:21

Put forward your cause, says the Lord; let your strong argument come out, says the King of Jacob.

Isaiah 44:22

I have put your evil doings out of my mind like a thick cloud, and your sins like a mist: come back to me; for I have taken up your cause.

Isaiah 50:8

He who takes up my cause is near; who will go to law with me? let us come together before the judge: who is against me? let him come near to me.

Isaiah 55:7

Let the sinner give up his way, and the evil-doer his purpose: and let him come back to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for there is full forgiveness with him.

Jeremiah 2:5

These are the words of the Lord: What evil have your fathers seen in me that they have gone far from me, and, walking after what is false, have become false?

Ezekiel 18:27

Again, when the evil-doer, turning away from the evil he has done, does what is ordered and right, he will have life for his soul.

Ezekiel 33:16

Not one of the sins which he has done will be kept in mind against him: he has done what is ordered and right, life will certainly be his.

Micah 6:2

Give ear, O you mountains, to the Lord's cause, and take note, you bases of the earth: for the Lord has a cause against his people, and he will take it up with Israel.

Acts 17:2

And Paul, as he generally did, went in to them, and on three Sabbath days had discussions with them from the holy Writings,

Acts 18:4

And every Sabbath he had discussions in the Synagogue, turning Jews and Greeks to the faith.

Acts 24:25

For he was hoping that Paul would give him money: so he sent for him more frequently and had talk with him.

Romans 5:20

And the law came in addition, to make wrongdoing worse; but where there was much sin, there was much more grace:

Revelation 7:14

And I said to him, My lord, you have knowledge. And he said to me, These are they who came through the great testing, and their robes have been washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb.

1 Samuel 12:7

Keep your places now, while I take up the argument with you before the Lord, and give you the story of the righteousness of the Lord, which he has made clear by his acts to you and to your fathers.