If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,
if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,
That you ask, 'What advantage will it be to you? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?'
yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me.
I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, LORD;
Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities.
He who conceals his sins doesn't prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me, says the Lord GOD.
Yerushalayim, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?
For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn't subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.