Isaiah 1:18

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

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  • Ps 51:7 : 7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
  • Isa 41:21 : 21 Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.
  • Isa 43:24-26 : 24 Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities. 25 I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins. 26 Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.
  • Rev 7:14 : 14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These a they which came out of gat tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
  • Isa 44:22 : 22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
  • Mic 7:18-19 : 18 Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy. 19 He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
  • Acts 18:4 : 4 And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.
  • Eph 1:6-8 : 6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. 7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; 8 Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;
  • Rom 5:20 : 20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
  • Isa 41:1 : 1 Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.
  • 1 Sam 12:7 : 7 Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the LORD of all the righteous acts of the LORD, which he did to you and to your fathers.
  • Mic 6:2 : 2 Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD'S controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel.
  • Acts 24:25 : 25 And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.
  • Acts 17:2 : 2 And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,
  • Jer 2:5 : 5 Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

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    16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

    17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

  • 19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

  • Isa 55:7-8
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    7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

    8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

  • 22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.

  • 7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

  • 22 For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.

  • 1 John 1:7-9
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    7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

    8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

    9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

  • 2 Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?

  • Isa 64:5-6
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    5 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.

    6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

  • 2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

  • Hos 14:1-2
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    1 O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for tu hast fallen by thine iniquity.

    2 Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.

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    25 I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.

    26 Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.

  • 14 O usalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?

  • 5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.

  • Mic 7:18-19
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    18 Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.

    19 He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

  • 1 Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

  • 8 And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me.

  • 31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

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    4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

    5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

  • 9 Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.

  • 10 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

  • Jer 13:22-23
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    22 And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare.

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  • 13 Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.

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    12 Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:

    13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.

  • 20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.

  • 19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;

  • 1 Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.

  • 77 To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins,

  • 40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.

  • 4 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.

  • 12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

  • 9 Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.

  • 1 In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.

  • 29 Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD.

  • 1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.

  • 3 For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?

  • 12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?