¹³ Surely in vain have I cleansed my heart, And washed my hands in innocency;

⁶ I will wash my hands in innocency: So will I compass thine altar, O Jehovah;

⁹ For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing That he should delight himself with God.

¹⁵ What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

³ That thou sayest, What advantage will it be unto thee? `And', What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?

⁸ Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded.

¹⁹ Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus,

²⁰ by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;

²¹ and `having' a great priest over the house of God;

²² let us draw near with a true heart in fulness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience: and having our body washed with pure water,

¹⁴ Ye have said, It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfully before Jehovah of hosts?

¹⁰ Create in me a clean heart, O God; And renew a right spirit within me.

⁴ He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; Who hath not lifted up his soul unto falsehood, And hath not sworn deceitfully.

³¹ Yet wilt thou plunge me in the ditch, And mine own clothes shall abhor me.

²⁷ If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will put off my `sad' countenance, and be of good cheer;