Verse 22

You can try to wash away your guilt with a strong detergent. You can use as much soap as you want. But the stain of your guilt is still there for me to see,” says the Sovereign LORD.

Referenced Verses

• Job 14:17 : 17 My offenses would be sealed up in a bag; you would cover over my sin.
• Jer 17:1 : 1 The sin of Judah is engraved with an iron chisel on their stone-hard hearts. It is inscribed with a diamond point on the horns of their altars.
• Hos 13:12 : 12 Israel’s Punishment Will Not Be Withheld Much Longer The punishment of Ephraim has been decreed; his punishment is being stored up for the future.
• Amos 8:7 : 7 The LORD confirms this oath by the arrogance of Jacob:“I swear I will never forget all you have done!
• Deut 32:34 : 34 “Is this not stored up with me?” says the LORD,“Is it not sealed up in my storehouses?
• Job 9:30-31 : 30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands clean with lye, 31 then you plunge me into a slimy pit and my own clothes abhor me.
• Ps 90:8 : 8 You are aware of our sins; you even know about our hidden sins.
• Ps 130:3 : 3 If you, O LORD, were to keep track of sins, O Lord, who could stand before you?
• Jer 16:17 : 17 For I see everything they do. Their wicked ways are not hidden from me. Their sin is not hidden away where I cannot see it.