Isaiah 1:16 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised ‘Wash yourselves. Cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from my sight. Stop doing evil. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes! Cease to do evil, American Standard Version (1901) Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; Common English Bible Wash! Be clean! Remove your ugly deeds from my sight. Put an end to such evil; Catholic Public Domain Version Wash, become clean, take away the evil of your intentions from my eyes. Cease to act perversely. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes: cease to do perversely, |
Still, the Lord warned Israel and Judah through every prophet and every seer, saying, ‘Turn from your evil ways and keep my commands and statutes according to the whole law I commanded your ancestors and sent to you through my servants the prophets.’
Doing what is righteous and just is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
Don’t turn to the right or to the left; keep your feet away from evil.
Leave, leave, go out from there! Do not touch anything unclean; go out from her, purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the Lord.
So now, say to the men of Judah and to the residents of Jerusalem, “This is what the Lord says: Look, I am about to bring harm to you and make plans against you. Turn now, each from your evil way, and correct your ways and your deeds.”
He announced, “Turn, each of you, from your evil way of life and from your evil deeds. Live in the land the Lord gave to you and your ancestors long ago and for ever.
Perhaps they will listen and turn #– #each from his evil way of life #– #so that I might relent concerning the disaster that I plan to do to them because of the evil of their deeds.
Time and time again I have sent you all my servants the prophets, proclaiming, ‘Turn, each one from his evil way, and correct your actions. Stop following other gods to serve them. Live in the land that I gave you and your ancestors.’ But you did not pay attention or obey me.
Wash the evil from your heart, Jerusalem, so that you will be delivered. How long will you harbour malicious thoughts?
Hate evil and love good; establish justice at the city gate. Perhaps the Lord, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
Furthermore, both people and animals must be covered with sackcloth, and everyone must call out earnestly to God. Each must turn from his evil ways and from his wrongdoing.
‘On that day a fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the residents of Jerusalem, to wash away sin and impurity.
Aren’t these the words that the Lord proclaimed through the earlier prophets when Jerusalem was inhabited and secure, along with its surrounding cities, and when the southern region and the Judean foothills were inhabited? ’
And now, why are you delaying? Get up and be baptised, and wash away your sins, calling on his name.”
So then, dear friends, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from every impurity of the flesh and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all slander.
and let him turn away from evil and do what is good. Let him seek peace and pursue it,
I said to him, ‘Sir, you know.’ Then he told me: These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.