Jeremiah 2:22

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Though you wash yourself with lye and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your guilt is still before me,” declares the Lord GOD.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 14:17 : 17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and you cover over my iniquity.
  • Jer 17:1 : 1 The sin of Judah is written with an iron pen, engraved with a diamond point, on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars.
  • Hos 13:12 : 12 The guilt of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is stored away.
  • Amos 8:7 : 7 The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob: 'Surely I will never forget all their deeds.'
  • Deut 32:34 : 34 Is it not stored up with Me, sealed in My treasuries?
  • Job 9:30-31 : 30 Even if I washed myself with snow and cleansed my hands with soap, 31 You would plunge me into a pit, and even my clothes would abhor me.
  • Ps 90:8 : 8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.
  • Ps 130:3 : 3 If You, LORD, keep a record of iniquities, Lord, who could stand?
  • Jer 16:17 : 17 My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from My face, and their iniquity is not concealed from My eyes.

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