If I had been washed with snow-like waters, and my hands were shining like the cleanest thing,
If my steps have turned aside from the way, or if my heart has followed my eyes, or if a blemish has clung to my hands,
For you said, "Having done what is right does not please you," and, "How will it benefit you, if I sin?"
yet you would plunge me in filth, and my own garments would abhor me.
He has exalted me upon the rock, and now he has exalted my head above my enemies. I have circled around and offered a sacrifice of loud exclamation in his tabernacle. I will sing, and I will compose a psalm, to the Lord.
"Behold the man who did not set God as his helper. But he hoped in the multitude of his riches, and so he prevailed in his emptiness."
Whoever hides his crimes will not be guided. But whoever will have confessed and abandoned them shall overtake mercy.
Even if you wash yourself with soap, and increase your use of herbal soaps, you are still stained by your iniquity in my sight, says the Lord God.
Wash your heart from malice, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will harmful thoughts abide in you?
For, being ignorant of the justice of God, and seeking to establish their own justice, they have not subjected themselves to the justice of God.
If we claim that we have no sin, then we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.