Isaiah 1:16

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

“Wash yourselves and make yourselves clean. Stop doing the evil things I see you do. Stop doing wrong.

Cross References

1 Peter 3:11

Stop doing what is wrong, and do good. Look for peace, and do all you can to help people live peacefully.

1 Peter 2:1

So then, stop doing anything to hurt others. Don’t lie anymore, and stop trying to fool people. Don’t be jealous or say bad things about others.

2 Corinthians 7:1

Dear friends, we have these promises from God. So we should make ourselves pure—free from anything that makes our body or our soul unclean. Our respect for God should make us try to be completely holy in the way we live.

James 4:8

Come near to God and he will come near to you. You are sinners, so clean sin out of your lives. You are trying to follow God and the world at the same time. Make your thinking pure.

Revelation 7:14

I answered, “You know who they are, sir.” And the elder said, “These are the ones who have come out of the great suffering. They have washed their robes with the blood of the Lamb, and they are clean and white.

Jeremiah 4:14

People of Jerusalem, wash the evil from your hearts. Make your hearts pure so that you can be saved. Don’t continue making evil plans.

Matthew 3:8

Change your hearts! And show by the way you live that you have changed.

Isaiah 52:11

So leave Babylon! Leave that place! Priests, you carry the things that belong to the Lord. So make yourselves pure. Don’t touch anything that is not pure.

Psalm 26:6

Lord, I wash my hands to make myself pure, so that I can come to your altar.

Romans 12:9

Your love must be real. Hate what is evil. Do only what is good.

Acts 22:16

Now, don’t wait any longer. Get up, be baptized and wash away your sins, trusting in Jesus to save you.’

Amos 5:15

Hate evil and love goodness. Bring justice back into the courts. Maybe then the Lord God All-Powerful will be kind to the survivors from Joseph’s family.

Jeremiah 25:5

Those prophets said, “Change your lives and stop doing evil! If you change, you can return to the land that the Lord gave you and your ancestors long ago. He gave you this land to live in forever.

Psalm 37:27

Stop doing anything evil and do good, and you will always have a place to live.

Psalm 34:14

Stop doing anything evil, and do good. Look for peace, and do all you can to help people live peacefully.

Psalm 51:2

Scrub away my guilt. Wash me clean from my sin.

Proverbs 4:27

Don’t go to the right or to the left, and you will stay away from evil.

Proverbs 21:3

Do what is right and fair. The Lord loves that more than sacrifices.

Jeremiah 18:11

“So, Jeremiah, say to the people of Judah and those who live in Jerusalem, ‘This is what the Lord says: I am the potter preparing troubles for you and making plans against you. So stop doing the evil things you are doing. Each person must change and start doing good.’

Jeremiah 26:3

Maybe they will listen and obey my message. Maybe they will stop living such evil lives. If they change, I will change my mind about my plans to punish them. I am planning this punishment because of the many evil things they have done.

Jeremiah 35:15

Time after time I have sent my servants the prophets to you. They said, “You must each stop doing evil things and do what is right. Don’t follow other gods. Don’t worship or serve them. If you obey me, you will live in the land I have given to you and your ancestors.” But you have not paid attention to my message.

Jonah 3:8

But every person and every animal must be covered with a special cloth to show they are sad. People must cry loudly to God. Everyone must change their life and stop doing bad things.

Zechariah 7:7

The Lord used the earlier prophets to say the same thing long ago. That was when Jerusalem was still a rich city filled with people and there were still people living in the surrounding towns, in the Negev, and in the western foothills.’”

Zechariah 13:1

But at that time a new spring of water will be opened for David’s family and for the other people living in Jerusalem. That fountain will be to wash away their sins and to make the people pure.

2 Kings 17:13

The Lord used every prophet and every seer to warn Israel and Judah. He said, “Turn away from the evil things you do. Obey my commands and laws. Follow all the law that I gave to your ancestors. I used my servants the prophets to give this law to you.”