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Isaiah 1:16

Conservative English Version

Wash yourselves clean! I am disgusted with your filthy deeds. Stop doing wrong

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So the LORD made sure that every prophet warned Israel and Judah with these words: "I, the LORD, command you to stop doing sinful things and start obeying my laws and teachings! I gave them to your ancestors, and I told my servants the prophets to repeat them to you."

I wash my hands, LORD, to show my innocence, and I worship at your altar,

Do good instead of evil and try to live at peace.

If you stop sinning and start doing right, you will keep living and be secure forever.

Wash me clean from all of my sin and guilt.

Doing what is right and fair pleases the LORD more than an offering.

Don't make a mistake by turning to the right or the left.

Leave the city of Babylon! Don't touch anything filthy. Wash yourselves. Be ready to carry back everything sacred that belongs to the LORD.

So listen to me, people of Judah and Jerusalem! I have decided to strike you with disaster, and I won't change my mind unless you stop sinning and start living right.

They told you that the LORD had said: Change your ways! If you stop doing evil, I will let you stay forever in this land that I gave your ancestors.

Maybe the people will listen this time. And if they stop doing wrong, I will change my mind and not punish them for their sins.

You refused to listen to my prophets, who kept telling you, "Stop doing evil and worshiping other gods! Start obeying the LORD, and he will let you live in this land he gave your ancestors."

But Jerusalem, there is still time for you to be saved. Wash the evil from your hearts and stop making sinful plans,

Choose good instead of evil! See that justice is done. Maybe I, the LORD All-Powerful, will be kind to what's left of your people.

In the future there will be a fountain, where David's descendants and the people of Jerusalem can wash away their sin and guilt.

My message today is the same one I commanded the earlier prophets to speak to Jerusalem and its villages when they were prosperous, and when all of Judah, including the Southern Desert and the hill country, was filled with people.

Do something to show that you have really given up your sins.

What are you waiting for? Get up! Be baptized, and wash away your sins by praying to the Lord."

Be sincere in your love for others. Hate everything that is evil and hold tight to everything that is good.

My friends, God has made us these promises. So we should stay away from everything that keeps our bodies and spirits from being clean. We should honor God and try to be completely like him.

Come near to God, and he will come near to you. Clean up your lives, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you people who can't make up your mind.

Stop being hateful! Quit trying to fool people, and start being sincere. Don't be jealous or say cruel things about others.

Give up your evil ways and do right, as you find and follow the road that leads to peace.

"Sir," I answered, "you must know." Then he told me: "These are the ones who have gone through the great suffering. They have washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb and have made them white.




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