Isaiah 1:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Come now, and let us have an argument together, says the Lord: how may your sins which are red like blood be white as snow? how may their dark purple seem like wool?

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 51:7 : 7 Make me free from sin with hyssop: let me be washed whiter than snow.
  • Isa 41:21 : 21 Put forward your cause, says the Lord; let your strong argument come out, says the King of Jacob.
  • Isa 43:24-26 : 24 You have not got me sweet-smelling plants with your money, or given me pleasure with the fat of your offerings: but you have made me a servant to your sins, and you have made me tired with your evil doings. 25 I, even I, am he who takes away your sins; and I will no longer keep your evil doings in mind. 26 Put me in mind of this; let us take up the cause between us: put forward your cause, so that you may be seen to be in the right.
  • Rev 7:14 : 14 And I said to him, My lord, you have knowledge. And he said to me, These are they who came through the great testing, and their robes have been washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb.
  • Isa 44:22 : 22 I have put your evil doings out of my mind like a thick cloud, and your sins like a mist: come back to me; for I have taken up your cause.
  • Mic 7:18-19 : 18 Who is a God like you, offering forgiveness for evil-doing and overlooking the sins of the rest of his heritage? he does not keep his wrath for ever, because his delight is in mercy. 19 He will again have pity on us; he will put our sins under his feet: and you will send all our sins down into the heart of the sea.
  • Acts 18:4 : 4 And every Sabbath he had discussions in the Synagogue, turning Jews and Greeks to the faith.
  • Eph 1:6-8 : 6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely gave to us in the Loved One: 7 In whom we have salvation through his blood, the forgiveness of our sins, through the wealth of his grace, 8 Which he gave us in full measure in all wisdom and care;
  • Rom 5:20 : 20 And the law came in addition, to make wrongdoing worse; but where there was much sin, there was much more grace:
  • Isa 41:1 : 1 Come quietly before me, O sea-lands, and let the peoples get together their strength: let them come near; then let them say what they have to say: let us put forward our cause against one another.
  • 1 Sam 12:7 : 7 Keep your places now, while I take up the argument with you before the Lord, and give you the story of the righteousness of the Lord, which he has made clear by his acts to you and to your fathers.
  • Mic 6:2 : 2 Give ear, O you mountains, to the Lord's cause, and take note, you bases of the earth: for the Lord has a cause against his people, and he will take it up with Israel.
  • Acts 24:25 : 25 And while he was talking about righteousness and self-control and the judging which was to come, Felix had great fear and said, Go away for the present, and when the right time comes I will send for you.
  • Acts 17:2 : 2 And Paul, as he generally did, went in to them, and on three Sabbath days had discussions with them from the holy Writings,
  • Jer 2:5 : 5 These are the words of the Lord: What evil have your fathers seen in me that they have gone far from me, and, walking after what is false, have become false?

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    16 Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning;

    17 Take pleasure in well-doing; let your ways be upright, keep down the cruel, give a right decision for the child who has no father, see to the cause of the widow.

  • Isa 1:19
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    19 If you will give ear to my word and do it, the good things of the land will be yours;

  • Isa 55:7-8
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    7 Let the sinner give up his way, and the evil-doer his purpose: and let him come back to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for there is full forgiveness with him.

    8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, or your ways my ways, says the Lord.

  • Isa 44:22
    72%

    22 I have put your evil doings out of my mind like a thick cloud, and your sins like a mist: come back to me; for I have taken up your cause.

  • Ps 51:7
    72%

    7 Make me free from sin with hyssop: let me be washed whiter than snow.

  • Jer 2:22
    72%

    22 For even if you are washed with soda and take much soap, still your evil-doing is marked before me, says the Lord God.

  • 1 John 1:7-9
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    71%

    7 But if we are walking in the light, as he is in the light, we are all united with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son makes us clean from all sin.

    8 If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us.

    9 If we say openly that we have done wrong, he is upright and true to his word, giving us forgiveness of sins and making us clean from all evil.

  • Isa 63:2
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    2 Why is your clothing red, and why are your robes like those of one who is crushing the grapes?

  • Isa 64:5-6
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    5 For we have all become like an unclean person, and all our good acts are like a dirty robe: and we have all become old like a dead leaf, and our sins, like the wind, take us away.

    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.

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    70%

    2 Let all my wrongdoing be washed away, and make me clean from evil.

  • Hos 14:1-2
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    70%

    1 Samaria will be made waste, for she has gone against her God: they will be cut down by the sword, their little children will be broken on the rocks, their women who are with child will be cut open.

    2 O Israel, come back to the Lord your God; for your evil-doing has been the cause of your fall.

  • Isa 43:25-26
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    25 I, even I, am he who takes away your sins; and I will no longer keep your evil doings in mind.

    26 Put me in mind of this; let us take up the cause between us: put forward your cause, so that you may be seen to be in the right.

  • Jer 4:14
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    14 O Jerusalem, make your heart clean from evil, so that you may have salvation. How long are evil purposes to have a resting-place in you?

  • Isa 2:5
    69%

    5 O family of Jacob, come, and let us go in the light of the Lord.

  • Mic 7:18-19
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    69%

    18 Who is a God like you, offering forgiveness for evil-doing and overlooking the sins of the rest of his heritage? he does not keep his wrath for ever, because his delight is in mercy.

    19 He will again have pity on us; he will put our sins under his feet: and you will send all our sins down into the heart of the sea.

  • Hos 6:1
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    1 Come, let us go back to the Lord; for he has given us wounds and he will make us well; he has given blows and he will give help.

  • Jer 33:8
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    8 And I will make them clean from all their sin, with which they have been sinning against me; I will have forgiveness for all their sins, with which they have been sinning against me, and with which they have done evil against me.

  • Ezek 18:31
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    31 Put away all your evil-doing in which you have done sin; and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: why are you desiring death, O children of Israel?

  • Isa 1:4-5
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    4 O nation full of sin, a people weighted down with crime, a generation of evil-doers, false-hearted children: they have gone away from the Lord, they have no respect for the Holy One of Israel, their hearts are turned back from him.

    5 Why will you have more and more punishment? why keep on in your evil ways? Every head is tired and every heart is feeble.

  • Isa 64:9
    69%

    9 Your holy towns have become a waste, Zion has become a waste, Jerusalem is a mass of broken walls.

  • Isa 1:10
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    10 Give ear to the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom; let your hearts be turned to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.

  • Jer 13:22-23
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    22 And if you say in your heart, Why have these things come on me? because of the number of your sins, your skirts have been uncovered and violent punishment overtakes you.

    23 Is it possible for the skin of the Ethiopian to be changed, or the markings on the leopard? Then it might be possible for you to do good, who have been trained to do evil.

  • Jer 4:1
    68%

    1 If you will come back, O Israel, says the Lord, you will come back to me: and if you will put away your disgusting ways, you will not be sent away from before me.

  • Mal 2:17
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    17 You have made the Lord tired with your words. And still you say, How have we made him tired? By your saying, Everyone who does evil is good in the eyes of the Lord, and he has delight in them; or, Where is God the judge?

  • Jer 26:13
    68%

    13 So now, make a change for the better in your ways and your doings, and give ear to the voice of the Lord your God; then the Lord will let himself be turned from the decision he has made against you for evil.

  • Joel 2:12-13
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    68%

    12 But even now, says the Lord, come back to me with all your heart, keeping from food, with weeping and with sorrow:

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    20 And as a saviour he will come to Zion, turning away sin from Jacob, says the Lord.

  • Acts 3:19
    68%

    19 So then, let your hearts be changed and be turned to God, so that your sins may be completely taken away, and times of blessing may come from the Lord;

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    1 The Lord says, Let your way of life be upright, and let your behaviour be rightly ordered: for my salvation is near, and my righteousness will quickly be seen.

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    77 To give knowledge of salvation to his people, through the forgiveness of sins,

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    40 Let us make search and put our ways to the test, turning again to the Lord;

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    4 When Zion has been washed from her sin by the Lord, and Jerusalem made clean from her blood by a judging and a burning wind.

  • Heb 8:12
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    12 And I will have mercy on their evil-doing, and I will not keep their sins in mind.

  • Ezek 16:9
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    9 Then I had you washed with water, washing away all your blood and rubbing you with oil.

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    1 In that day there will be a fountain open to the family of David and to the people of Jerusalem, for sin and for that which is unclean.

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    29 Why will you put forward your cause against me? You have all done evil against me, says the Lord.

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    1 Give comfort, give comfort, to my people, says your God.

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    3 What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong?

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    12 At whose request do you come before me, making my house unclean with your feet?