Psalms 73:13

World English Bible (2000)

Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart, and washed my hands in innocence,

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 34:9 : 9 For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.'
  • Ps 26:6 : 6 I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, Yahweh;
  • Job 21:15 : 15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?'
  • Job 35:3 : 3 That you ask, 'What advantage will it be to you? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?'
  • Ps 24:4 : 4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.
  • Job 9:27 : 27 If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;'
  • Job 9:31 : 31 yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me.
  • Ps 51:10 : 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.
  • Mal 3:14 : 14 You have said, 'It is vain to serve God;' and 'What profit is it that we have followed his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?
  • Heb 10:19-22 : 19 Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus, 20 by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; 21 and having a great priest over the house of God, 22 let's draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,
  • Jas 4:8 : 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

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