The LORD rewards me because I do what is right; he blesses me because I am innocent.

LORD, I wash my hands to show that I am innocent and march in worship around your altar.

No soap can wash away my sins.

Those who claim to be respectable are more and more convinced they are right.

"When you lift your hands in prayer, I will not look at you. No matter how much you pray, I will not listen, for your hands are covered with blood.

Wash yourselves clean. Stop all this evil that I see you doing. Yes, stop doing evil

You can survive if you say and do what is right. Don't use your power to cheat the poor and don't accept bribes. Don't join with those who plan to commit murder or to do other evil things.

Then you will be safe; you will be as secure as if in a strong fortress. You will have food to eat and water to drink.

In every church service I want the men to pray, men who are dedicated to God and can lift up their hands in prayer without anger or argument.

Come near to God, and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners! Purify your hearts, you hypocrites!

Create a pure heart in me, O God, and put a new and loyal spirit in me.

God is indeed good to Israel, to those who have pure hearts.

When the LORD saw how wicked everyone on earth was and how evil their thoughts were all the time,

Can anyone really say that his conscience is clear, that he has gotten rid of his sin?

Jerusalem, wash the evil from your heart, so that you may be saved. How long will you go on thinking sinful thoughts?

"Happy are the pure in heart; they will see God!

He made no difference between us and them; he forgave their sins because they believed.

All these promises are made to us, my dear friends. So then, let us purify ourselves from everything that makes body or soul unclean, and let us be completely holy by living in awe of God.

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth. The first heaven and the first earth disappeared, and the sea vanished.

I heard a loud voice speaking from the throne: "Now God's home is with people! He will live with them, and they shall be his people. God himself will be with them, and he will be their God.

Happy are those who wash their robes clean and so have the right to eat the fruit from the tree of life and to go through the gates into the city.

But outside the city are the perverts and those who practice magic, the immoral and the murderers, those who worship idols and those who are liars both in words and deeds.

To you, O LORD, I offer my prayer;

Remind me each morning of your constant love, for I put my trust in you. My prayers go up to you; show me the way I should go.

Do not be tempted to worship and serve what you see in the sky---the sun, the moon, and the stars. The LORD your God has given these to all other peoples for them to worship.

He doesn't worship the idols of the Israelites or eat the sacrifices offered at forbidden shrines. He doesn't seduce another man's wife or have intercourse with a woman during her period.

He doesn't worship the idols of the Israelites or eat the sacrifices offered at forbidden shrines. He doesn't seduce another man's wife

"Why are you doing this? We ourselves are only human beings like you! We are here to announce the Good News, to turn you away from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven, earth, sea, and all that is in them.

They despise those whom God rejects, but honor those who obey the LORD. They always do what they promise, no matter how much it may cost.

Even though you claim to worship the LORD, you do not mean what you say.

You steal, murder, commit adultery, tell lies under oath, offer sacrifices to Baal, and worship gods that you had not known before.

You do these things I hate, and then you come and stand in my presence, in my own Temple, and say, 'We are safe!'

Then he said to me, "On it is written the curse that is to go out over the whole land. On one side of the scroll it says that every thief will be removed from the land; and on the other side it says that everyone who tells lies under oath will also be taken away.

The LORD Almighty says that he will send this curse out, and it will enter the house of every thief and the house of everyone who tells lies under oath. It will remain in their houses and leave them in ruins."

The LORD Almighty says, "I will appear among you to judge, and I will testify at once against those who practice magic, against adulterers, against those who give false testimony, those who cheat employees out of their wages, and those who take advantage of widows, orphans, and foreigners---against all who do not respect me.

for the immoral, for sexual perverts, for kidnappers, for those who lie and give false testimony or who do anything else contrary to sound doctrine.