Psalms 73:13

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Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure and washed my hands in innocence.

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  • Job 34:9 : 9 For he has said, 'A man gains nothing by delighting in God.'
  • Ps 26:6 : 6 I will wash my hands in innocence, and I will go around Your altar, Lord,
  • Job 21:15 : 15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we profit if we entreat him?
  • Job 35:3 : 3 For you ask, 'What advantage is it to me? What do I gain by not sinning?'
  • Ps 24:4 : 4 The one with clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up their soul to vanity or swear deceitfully.
  • Job 9:27 : 27 If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will change my expression and smile,'
  • Job 9:31 : 31 You would plunge me into a pit, and even my clothes would abhor me.
  • Ps 51:10 : 10 Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice.
  • Mal 3:14 : 14 You have said, 'Serving God is futile. What profit is there in keeping his requirements or walking mournfully before the Lord of Hosts?
  • Heb 10:19-22 : 19 Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, His body, 21 and since we have a great high priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
  • 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.

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    28I still dread all my suffering, for I know You will not hold me innocent.

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    30Even if I washed myself with snow and cleansed my hands with soap,

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    6I will wash my hands in innocence, and I will go around Your altar, Lord,

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    9'I am pure, without sin; I am innocent, and there is no iniquity in me.'

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    14For I am stricken all day long and chastened every morning.

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    9Who can say, 'I have cleansed my heart; I am pure from my sin'?

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    4The one with clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up their soul to vanity or swear deceitfully.

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    17Yet my hands are free of violence, and my prayer is pure.

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    3Otherwise, they will tear me apart like a lion, ripping me to pieces with no one to rescue.

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    2When Nathan the prophet came to him after David had gone to Bathsheba.

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    3For you ask, 'What advantage is it to me? What do I gain by not sinning?'

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    23All His judgments are before me, and I have not turned away from His statutes.

    24I was blameless before Him and kept myself from my iniquity.

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    21When my heart was embittered and my spirit was pierced within me,

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    3You have tested my heart; you have visited me at night. You have refined me and found no evil. I have resolved that my mouth will not transgress.

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    35Yet you say, 'I am innocent; surely his anger has turned away from me.' But I will bring you to judgment because you say, 'I have not sinned.'

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    11But as for me, I walk in my integrity; redeem me and be gracious to me.

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    2But as for me, my feet almost slipped, my steps nearly stumbled.

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    13See, I will strike my hands together in anger at the dishonest gain you have made and the bloodshed that has been done in your midst.

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    12Behold, these are the wicked—always carefree, they increase in wealth.

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    7You know that I am not wicked, and that no one can deliver me from Your hand.

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    13If you would set your heart right and stretch out your hands toward Him,

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    24I have been blameless before him and have kept myself from iniquity.

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