If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;
For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O Lord:
Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord God.
O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.