Psalms 73:13

Bible in Basic English (1941)

As for me, I have made my heart clean to no purpose, washing my hands in righteousness;

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 34:9 : 9 For he has said, It is no profit to a man to take delight in God.
  • Ps 26:6 : 6 I will make my hands clean from sin; so will I go round your altar, O Lord;
  • Job 21:15 : 15 What is the Ruler of all, that we may give him worship? and what profit is it to us to make prayer to him?
  • Job 35:3 : 3 What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong?
  • Ps 24:4 : 4 He who has clean hands and a true heart; whose desire has not gone out to foolish things, who has not taken a false oath.
  • Job 9:27 : 27 If I say, I will put my grief out of mind, I will let my face be sad no longer and I will be bright;
  • Job 9:31 : 31 Then you will have me pushed into the dust, so that I will seem disgusting to my very clothing.
  • Ps 51:10 : 10 Make a clean heart in me, O God; give me a right spirit again.
  • Mal 3:14 : 14 You have said, It is no use worshipping God: what profit have we had from keeping his orders, and going in clothing of sorrow before the Lord of armies?
  • Heb 10:19-22 : 19 So then, my brothers, being able to go into the holy place without fear, because of the blood of Jesus, 20 By the new and living way which he made open for us through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; 21 And having a great priest over the house of God, 22 Let us go in with true hearts, in certain faith, having our hearts made free from the sense of sin and our bodies washed with clean water:
  • Jas 4:8 : 8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 9:28-31
    4 verses
    79%

    28 I go in fear of all my pains; I am certain that I will not be free from sin in your eyes.

    29 You will not let me be clear of sin! why then do I take trouble for nothing?

    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.

  • 6 I will make my hands clean from sin; so will I go round your altar, O Lord;

  • 9 I am clean, without sin; I am washed, and there is no evil in me:

  • 14 For I have been troubled all the day; every morning have I undergone punishment.

  • 9 Who is able to say, I have made my heart clean, I am free from my sin?

  • 4 He who has clean hands and a true heart; whose desire has not gone out to foolish things, who has not taken a false oath.

  • 17 Though my hands have done no violent acts, and my prayer is clean.

  • 7 If my steps have been turned out of the way, or if my heart went after my eyes, or if the property of another is in my hands;

  • Ps 7:3-4
    2 verses
    75%

    3 O Lord my God, if I have done this; if my hands have done any wrong;

    4 If I have given back evil to him who did evil to me, or have taken anything from him who was against me without cause;

  • Ps 51:2-4
    3 verses
    74%

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

    3 For I am conscious of my error; my sin is ever before me.

    4 Against you, you only, have I done wrong, working that which is evil in your eyes; so that your words may be seen to be right, and you may be clear when you are judging.

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

  • Ps 18:23-24
    2 verses
    73%

    23 And I was upright before him, and I kept myself from sin.

    24 Because of this the Lord has given me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean in his eyes.

  • 21 My heart was made bitter, and I was pained by the bite of grief:

  • 3 You have put my heart to the test, searching me in the night; you have put me to the test and seen no evil purpose in me; I will keep my mouth from sin.

  • 35 And still you said, I have done no wrong; truly, his wrath is turned away from me. See, I will take up the cause against you, because you say, I have done no wrong.

  • 11 But as for me, I will go on in my upright ways: be my saviour, and have mercy on me.

  • 12 There is a generation who seem to themselves to be free from sin, but are not washed from their unclean ways.

  • 4 You may say, My way is clean, and I am free from sin in your eyes.

  • Ps 73:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2 But as for me, my feet had almost gone from under me; I was near to slipping;

    3 Because of my envy of the men of pride, when I saw the well-being of the wrongdoers.

  • 3 Evils have overcome us: but as for our sins, you will take them away.

  • 13 See, then, I have made my hands come together in wrath against your taking of goods by force and against the blood which has been flowing in you.

  • 12 Truly, such are the sinners; they do well at all times, and their wealth is increased.

  • 7 Though you see that I am not an evil-doer; and there is no one who is able to take a man out of your hands?

  • Job 11:13-14
    2 verses
    70%

    13 But if you put your heart right, stretching out your hands to him;

    14 If you put far away the evil of your hands, and let no wrongdoing have a place in your tent;

  • 24 And I was upright before him, and I kept myself from sin.

  • Job 17:8-9
    2 verses
    70%

    8 The upright are surprised at this, and he who has done no wrong is troubled because of the evil-doers.

    9 Still the upright keeps on his way, and he who has clean hands gets new strength.

  • 27 A secret feeling of worship came into my heart, and my hand gave kisses from my mouth;

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

  • 5 If I have gone in false ways, or my foot has been quick in working deceit;

  • 3 Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all the day.

  • 15 I have made haircloth the clothing of my skin, and my horn is rolled in the dust.

  • 3 For your hands are unclean with blood, and your fingers with sin; your lips have said false things, and your tongue gives out deceit.

  • 5 You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)

  • 14 That, if I did wrong, you would take note of it, and would not make me clear from sin:

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

  • 21 The Lord gives me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean before him.

  • 4 And I said, I have undergone weariness for nothing, I have given my strength for no purpose or profit: but still the Lord will take up my cause, and my God will give me my reward.

  • 23 What is the number of my evil-doings and my sins? give me knowledge of them.

  • 17 Truly, to no purpose is the net stretched out before the eyes of the bird:

  • 20 If I have done wrong, what have I done to you, O keeper of men? why have you made me a mark for your blows, so that I am a weariness to myself?