Jeremiah 2:22
For even if you are washed with soda and take much soap, still your evil-doing is marked before me, says the Lord God.
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Referenced Verses
- Job 14:17 : 17 My wrongdoing is corded up in a bag, and my sin is shut up safe.
- Jer 17:1 : 1 The sin of Judah is recorded with a pen of iron, and with the sharp point of a jewel it is cut on their hearts of stone, and on the horns of their altars for a sign to them:
- Hos 13:12 : 12 The wrongdoing of Ephraim is shut up; his sin is put away in secret.
- Amos 8:7 : 7 The Lord has taken an oath by the pride of Jacob, Truly I will ever keep in mind all their works.
- Deut 32:34 : 34 Is not this among my secrets, kept safe in my store-house?
- Job 9:30-31 : 30 If I am washed with snow water, and make my hands clean with soap; 31 Then you will have me pushed into the dust, so that I will seem disgusting to my very clothing.
- Ps 90:8 : 8 You have put our evil doings before you, our secret sins in the light of your face.
- Ps 130:3 : 3 O Jah, if you took note of every sin, who would go free?
- Jer 16:17 : 17 For my eyes are on all their ways: there is no cover for them from my face, and their evil-doing is not kept secret from my eyes.
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