Psalm 26:6

New American Bible - revised edition

I will wash my hands in innocence so that I may process around your altar, Lord,

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Is it in vain that I have kept my heart pure, washed my hands in innocence?

not because of any righteous deeds we had done but because of his mercy, he saved us through the bath of rebirth and renewal by the holy Spirit,

It is my wish, then, that in every place the men should pray, lifting up holy hands, without anger or argument.

That I may come to the altar of God, to God, my joy, my delight. Then I will praise you with the harp, O God, my God.

“The clean of hand and pure of heart, who has not given his soul to useless things, what is vain.

Then all the elders of that city nearest the corpse shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the wadi,

Simon Peter said to him, “Master, then not only my feet, but my hands and head as well.”