Psalms 73:13
Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.
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Referenced Verses
- Job 34:9 : 9 For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
- Ps 26:6 : 6 I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:
- Job 21:15 : 15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
- Job 35:3 : 3 For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
- Ps 24:4 : 4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
- Job 9:27 : 27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
- Job 9:31 : 31 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
- Ps 51:10 : 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
- Mal 3:14 : 14 Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
- Heb 10:19-22 : 19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, 20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; 21 And having an high priest over the house of God; 22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
- Jas 4:8 : 8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
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28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
29 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
31 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
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6 I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:
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9 I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me.
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14 For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
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9 Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
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4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
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17 Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
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7 If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;
- Ps 7:3-42 verses75%
3 O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;
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- Ps 51:2-43 verses74%
2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.
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3 For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
- Ps 18:23-242 verses73%
23 I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.
24 Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
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21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
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3 Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
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35 Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
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11 But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me.
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12 There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
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4 For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.
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2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my ste had well nigh slipped.
3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
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3 Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away.
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13 Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of thee.
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12 Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.
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7 Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
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13 If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;
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24 I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity.
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8 Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
9 The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
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27 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:
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7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
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5 If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
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3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
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15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
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3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
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14 If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
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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;
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21 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
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4 Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God.
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23 How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
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17 Surely in vain the net is sead in the sight of any bird.
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20 I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?