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Jeremiah 4:14

Good News Translation

Jerusalem, wash the evil from your heart, so that you may be saved. How long will you go on thinking sinful thoughts?

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I hate those who are not completely loyal to you, but I love your law.

Wash away all my evil and make me clean from my sin!

If I had ignored my sins, the Lord would not have listened to me.

“Foolish people! How long do you want to be foolish? How long will you enjoy making fun of knowledge? Will you never learn?

Let the wicked leave their way of life and change their way of thinking. Let them turn to the Lord, our God; he is merciful and quick to forgive.

He has seen you do the things he hates. He has seen you go after pagan gods on the hills and in the fields, like a man lusting after his neighbor's wife or like a stallion after a mare. People of Jerusalem, you are doomed! When will you ever be pure?

The Lord says, “People of Judah, your sin is written with an iron pen; it is engraved on your hearts with a diamond point and carved on the corners of your altars.

Now then, tell the people of Judah and of Jerusalem that I am making plans against them and getting ready to punish them. Tell them to stop living sinful lives—to change their ways and the things they are doing.

Even if you washed with the strongest soap, I would still see the stain of your guilt.

Listen, earth! As punishment for all their schemes I am bringing ruin on these people, because they have rejected my teaching and have not obeyed my words.

Give up all the evil you have been doing, and get yourselves new minds and hearts. Why do you Israelites want to die?

Do not plan ways of harming one another. Do not give false testimony under oath. I hate lying, injustice, and violence.”

“To have good fruit you must have a healthy tree; if you have a poor tree, you will have bad fruit. A tree is known by the kind of fruit it bears.

So the Lord said to him, “Now then, you Pharisees clean the outside of your cup and plate, but inside you are full of violence and evil.

Simon Peter answered, “Lord, do not wash only my feet, then! Wash my hands and head, too!”

Repent, then, of this evil plan of yours, and pray to the Lord that he will forgive you for thinking such a thing as this.

They know God, but they do not give him the honor that belongs to him, nor do they thank him. Instead, their thoughts have become complete nonsense, and their empty minds are filled with darkness.

and another scripture says, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are worthless.”

Come near to God, and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners! Purify your hearts, you hypocrites!




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