And Abraham approached and said, Would You also sweep away the righteous with the wicked?

As for you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Jehovah searches all hearts and understands all the intent of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will cast you off forever.

And he went out before Asa, and said to him: Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin. Jehovah is with you while you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.

But it is good for me to draw near to God; I have put my trust in the Lord Jehovah, to declare all Your works.

Jehovah is near to all who call upon Him, to all who call upon Him in truth.

Therefore Jehovah said, Whereas this people draw near with their mouth, and honor Me with their lips, but have removed their hearts far from Me, and their fear toward Me is taught by the commandment of men;

Seek Jehovah while He may be found; call upon Him while He is near.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Jehovah, and He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.

Come, and let us return to Jehovah. For He has torn, and He will heal us. He has stricken, and He will bind us up.

After two days He will restore us to life. In the third day He will raise us up, and we shall live in His presence.

Therefore say to them, Thus says Jehovah of Hosts: Turn back to Me, says Jehovah of Hosts, and I will turn back to you, says Jehovah of Hosts.

From the days of your fathers, you have turned aside from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you, says Jehovah of Hosts. But you say, In what way shall we return?

For the Law made nothing perfect, but a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

If I wash myself with snow water, and cleanse my hands with soap,

although no violence is in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

Yet the righteous will take hold on his way, and he who has clean hands shall increase strength.

Jehovah rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands He has given back to me.

He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

I will wash my hands in innocence; thus I will go around Your altar, O Jehovah,

Surely I have made my heart pure in vain, and washed my hands in innocence.

And when you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you. Even though you multiply prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

Wash yourselves, purify yourselves. Put away the evil of your doings from My eyes; stop doing evil.

Everyone who is found shall be thrust through; and everyone who is captured shall fall by the sword.

Why do Your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.

When Pilate saw that he could not prevail at all, but rather that a tumult was rising, he took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just Person. You see to it.

I desire therefore that the men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting;

There is also an antitype which now saves us; immersion (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts; and in the hidden part You shall make me to know wisdom.

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

At that time it shall be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind from the desolate heights in the wilderness blows toward the daughter of My people, not to sift nor to cleanse.

Cast away from you all the transgressions by which you have transgressed, and prepare for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit; for why will you die, O house of Israel?

Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your defilement and from all your idols.

And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you shall keep My judgments and do them.

Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree corrupt and its fruit corrupt; for a tree is known by its fruit.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cleanse the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of extortion and self-indulgence.

Blind Pharisee, first cleanse the inside of the cup and dish, that the outside of them may be clean also.

And the Lord said to him, Now you Pharisees make the outside of the cup and dish clean, but your inward part is full of robbery and wickedness.

Foolish ones! Did not He who made the outside make the inside also?

and made no distinction between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilements of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently out of a pure heart,

And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.