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

Yet You will plunge me into the pit, And my own clothes will abhor me.

I will wash my hands in innocence; So I will go about Your altar, O LORD,

"Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; Put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes. Cease to do evil,

O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, That you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?

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."]

When the Pharisee saw [it,] he marveled that He had not first washed before dinner.

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

Now there were set there six waterpots of stone, according to the manner of purification of the Jews, containing twenty or thirty gallons apiece.

Then there arose a dispute between [some] of John's disciples and the Jews about purification.

[concerned] only with foods and drinks, various washings, and fleshly ordinances imposed until the time of reformation.

Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse [your] hands, [you] sinners; and purify [your] hearts, [you] double-minded.

But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.