I will make my hands clean from sin; so will I go round your altar, O Lord;
He who has clean hands and a true heart; whose desire has not gone out to foolish things, who has not taken a false oath.
Then I will go up to the altar of God, to the God of my joy; I will be glad and give praise to you on an instrument of music, O God, my God.
As for me, I have made my heart clean to no purpose, washing my hands in righteousness;
Simon Peter said to him, Lord, not my feet only, but my hands and my head.
And all the responsible men of that town which is nearest to the dead man, washing their hands over the cow whose neck was broken in the valley,
It is my desire, then, that in every place men may give themselves to prayer, lifting up holy hands, without wrath or argument.
Not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but in the measure of his mercy, he gave us salvation, through the washing of the new birth and the giving of new life in the Holy Spirit,