I maintain a pure lifestyle, so I can appear before your altar, O Lord,
The one whose deeds are blameless and whose motives are pure, who does not lie, or make promises with no intention of keeping them.
Then I will go to the altar of God, to the God who gives me ecstatic joy, so that I express my thanks to you, O God, my God, with a harp.
I concluded, “Surely in vain I have kept my motives pure and maintained a pure lifestyle.
Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, wash not only my feet, but also my hands and my head!”
and all the elders of that city nearest the corpse must wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley.
So I want the men to pray in every place, lifting up holy hands without anger or dispute.
he saved us not by works of righteousness that we have done but on the basis of his mercy, through the washing of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,