³⁰ If I am washed with snow water, and make my hands clean with soap;

²² For even if you are washed with soda and take much soap, still your evil-doing is marked before me, says the Lord God.

⁸ If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us.

⁷ If my steps have been turned out of the way, or if my heart went after my eyes, or if the property of another is in my hands;

⁶ I will make my hands clean from sin; so will I go round your altar, O Lord;

¹³ He who keeps his sins secret will not do well; but one who is open about them, and gives them up, will get mercy.

¹⁶ Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning;

¹⁷ Take pleasure in well-doing; let your ways be upright, keep down the cruel, give a right decision for the child who has no father, see to the cause of the widow.

¹⁸ Come now, and let us have an argument together, says the Lord: how may your sins which are red like blood be white as snow? how may their dark purple seem like wool?

¹⁴ O Jerusalem, make your heart clean from evil, so that you may have salvation. How long are evil purposes to have a resting-place in you?

³ Because, not having knowledge of God's righteousness, and desiring to give effect to their righteousness, they have not put themselves under the righteousness of God.