Isaiah 1:16

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“Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!”

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BSBPD

“Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Wash ye, make ye pure, Turn aside the evil of your doings, from before Mine eyes, Cease to do evil, learn to do good.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Isaiah 1:16 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 2 Kings 17:13Yet through all His prophets and seers, the LORD warned Israel and Judah, saying, “Turn from your wicked ways and keep My commandments and statutes, according to the entire Law that I commanded your fathers and delivered to you through My servants the prophets.”
  2. Job 11:13As for you, if you direct your heart and lift up your hands to Him,
  3. Psalms 26:6I wash my hands in innocence that I may go about Your altar, O LORD,
  4. Psalms 34:14Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.
  5. Psalms 37:27Turn away from evil and do good, so that you will abide forever.
  6. Isaiah 52:11Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing; come out from it, purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the LORD.
  7. Isaiah 55:6Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
  8. Isaiah 55:7Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.
  9. Jeremiah 4:14Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?
  10. Jeremiah 18:11Now therefore, tell the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, I am planning a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways, and correct your ways and deeds.’
  11. Jeremiah 25:5The prophets told you, ‘Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways and deeds, and you can dwell in the land that the LORD has given to you and your fathers forever and ever.
  12. Ezekiel 18:30Therefore, O house of Israel, I will judge you, each according to his ways, declares the Lord GOD. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, so that your iniquity will not become your downfall.
  13. Amos 5:15Hate evil and love good; establish justice in the gate. Perhaps the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
  14. Jonah 3:8Furthermore, let both man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and have everyone call out earnestly to God. Let each one turn from his evil ways and from the violence in his hands.
  15. Zechariah 1:3So tell the people that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Return to Me, declares the LORD of Hosts, and I will return to you, says the LORD of Hosts.’
  16. Matthew 3:8Produce fruit, then, in keeping with repentance.
  17. Acts 22:16And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and wash your sins away, calling on His name.’
  18. Romans 12:9Love must be sincere. Detest what is evil; cling to what is good.
  19. 2 Corinthians 7:1Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
  20. Ephesians 4:22to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
  21. Titus 2:11For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to everyone.
  22. James 4:8Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
  23. 1 Peter 2:1Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander.
  24. 1 Peter 3:11He must turn from evil and do good; he must seek peace and pursue it.

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