Verse 14

Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will your wicked thoughts lodge within you?

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Referenced Verses

  • Jas 4:8 : 8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
  • Acts 8:22 : 22 Repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord. Perhaps he will forgive you for having such thoughts in your heart.
  • Prov 1:22 : 22 How long, simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?
  • Isa 55:7 : 7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to the LORD, so that He may have compassion on him, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.
  • Jer 13:27 : 27 Your adulteries, your lustful neighings, your wicked acts of prostitution on the hills and in the fields—I have seen your detestable behavior. Woe to you, Jerusalem! How much longer will it be before you are made clean?
  • Ezek 18:31 : 31 Rid yourselves of all the offenses you have committed, and get a new heart and a new spirit. Why will you die, house of Israel?
  • Matt 12:33 : 33 Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for a tree is known by its fruit.
  • Matt 15:19-20 : 19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, and slanders. 20 These are the things that defile a person, but eating with unwashed hands does not defile them.”
  • Matt 23:26-27 : 26 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the dish, so that the outside may also become clean. 27 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which appear beautiful on the outside but inside are full of the bones of the dead and all impurity.
  • Luke 11:39 : 39 Then the Lord said to him, 'Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.
  • Isa 1:16-19 : 16 Wash yourselves and make yourselves clean. Remove your evil deeds from My sight; stop doing evil. 17 Learn to do what is good; seek justice, correct the oppressor. Defend the cause of the fatherless and plead the case of the widow. 18 "Come now, let us reason together," says the LORD. "Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool. 19 If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best of the land.
  • Ps 66:18 : 18 If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.
  • Ps 119:113 : 113 I hate those with divided hearts, but I love Your law.
  • Rom 1:21 : 21 For although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or give thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
  • 1 Cor 3:20 : 20 And again, 'The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.'