TSK · Proverbs 30:12

Micah said,“Now I know the LORD will make me rich, because I have this Levite as my priest.”

‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean and have no iniquity.

Wash away my wrongdoing! Cleanse me of my sin!

All a person’s ways seem right in his own opinion, but the LORD evaluates the motives.

Wash! Cleanse yourselves! Remove your sinful deeds from my sight. Stop sinning!

You can try to wash away your guilt with a strong detergent. You can use as much soap as you want. But the stain of your guilt is still there for me to see,” says the Sovereign LORD.

“Oh people of Jerusalem, purify your hearts from evil so that you may yet be delivered. How long will you continue to harbor up wicked schemes within you?

“I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt; I will make you live in tents again as in the days of old.

But the Lord said to him,“Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.

The Pharisee stood and prayed about himself like this:‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people: extortionists, unrighteous people, adulterers– or even like this tax collector.

They will maintain the outward appearance of religion but will have repudiated its power. So avoid people like these.

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,

and from Jesus Christ– the faithful witness, the firstborn from among the dead, the ruler over the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and has set us free from our sins at the cost of his own blood