When I come to your altar, Yahweh, I’ll be clean before you, approaching with songs of thanksgiving, singing songs of your mighty miracles.
Have I been foolish to play by the rules and keep my life pure?
he came to save us. Not because of any virtuous deed that we have done but only because of his extravagant mercy.
Therefore, I encourage the men to pray on every occasion with hands lifted to God in worship with clean hearts, free from frustration or strife.
Then I will come closer to your very altar until I come before you, the God of my ecstatic joy! I will praise you with the harp that plays in my heart to you, my God, my magnificent God!
Those who are clean—whose works and ways are pure, whose hearts are true and sealed by the truth, those who never deceive, whose words are sure.
So Peter said, “Lord, in that case, don’t just wash my feet, wash my hands and my head too!”