³ Every one of them has gone back; they are unclean: there is not one who does good, no, not one.

¹² They have all gone out of the way, there is no profit in any of them; there is not one who does good, not so much as one:

⁶ And there is no one who makes prayer to your name, or who is moved to keep true to you: for your face is veiled from us, and you have given us into the power of our sins.

⁵ Why do these people of Jerusalem go back, for ever turning away? they will not give up their deceit, they will not come back.

⁶ I took note and gave ear, but no one said what is right: no man had regret for his evil-doing, saying, What have I done? everyone goes off on his way like a horse rushing to the fight.

⁶ We all went wandering like sheep; going every one of us after his desire; and the Lord put on him the punishment of us all.

³ They have all gone out of the way together; they are unclean, there is not one who does good, no, not one.

¹¹ Let the evil man go on in his evil: and let the unclean be still unclean: and let the upright go on in his righteousness: and let the holy be holy still.

¹¹ My loved one, do not be copying what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God: he who does evil has not seen God.

²⁹ If you have knowledge that he is upright, it is clear to you that everyone who does righteousness is his offspring.

¹ Because God, then, will give us such rewards, dear brothers, let us make ourselves clean from all evil of flesh and spirit, and become completely holy in the fear of God.

⁶ And those who are turned back from going after the Lord, and those who have not made prayer to the Lord or got directions from him.

²⁵ And I will put clean water on you so that you may be clean: from all your unclean ways and from all your images I will make you clean.

¹⁶ How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!

² So all the men of Israel, turning away from David, went after Sheba, the son of Bichri: but the men of Judah were true to their king, going with him from Jordan as far as Jerusalem.