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Cleansing » Ps 51 » Spiritual encouraged
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse [your] hands, [you] sinners, and purify [your] hearts, [you] double-minded!
Therefore [since we] have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of body and spirit, accomplishing holiness in the fear of God.
And now why are you delaying? Get up, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on his name!'
Therefore, if someone cleanses himself from these [things], he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart, useful to the Master, prepared for every good work.
And everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as that one is pure.
Wash! Make yourselves clean! Remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes! Cease to do evil!
Cleanse your heart from wickedness, Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. {How long} will your thoughts of mischief dwell in your inner part?
Clean out the old leaven in order that you may be a new batch of dough, just as you are unleavened. For Christ our Passover has been sacrificed.
Evil » Confess Christ » Thoughts
For from the heart come evil plans, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, abusive speech.
Cleanse your heart from wickedness, Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. {How long} will your thoughts of mischief dwell in your inner part?
Devising folly [is] a sin, and an abomination to humankind [is] a scoffer.
{Take care} so that there will not be {a thought of wickedness} in your heart, {saying}, 'The seventh year, the year of the remission of debt is near,' {and you view your needy neighbor with hostility}, and [so] you [do] not give to him, and he might cry [out] against you to Yahweh, and {you would incur guilt against yourself}.
{They carefully plot} injustices [saying], "We have perfected {the perfect plot}!" Both [the] {inner thought} and heart of man [are] deep.
Yahweh knows [the] thoughts of humankind, that {they [are] to no purpose}.
Plans of evil [are] an abomination of Yahweh, but gracious words are pure.
For, like hair in his {throat}, so it is. "Eat and drink!" he will say to you, but his heart will not be with you.
"And I--their works and thoughts!--[am] about to come to gather all nations and tongues, and they shall come and see my glory.
And knowing their thoughts, Jesus said, "Why do you think evil in your hearts?
Heart » The unregenerate » Is full of iniquity
a devising heart, plans of deception, feet that hurry to run to evil,
And Yahweh smelled the soothing fragrance, and Yahweh said {to himself}, "{Never again will I curse} the ground for the sake of humankind, because the inclination of the heart of humankind [is] evil from his youth. {Nor will I ever again destroy} all life as I have done.
Cleanse your heart from wickedness, Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. {How long} will your thoughts of mischief dwell in your inner part?
His oldest brother Eliab heard while he was speaking to the men, {and Eliab became very angry against David} and said, "Why have you come down today, and with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your presumptuousness and the evil of your heart! For you have come down in order to see the battle!"
The heart [is] deceitful more than anything else, and it [is] disastrous. Who can understand it?
Verse Concepts
Faithfulness, In Human RelationshipsDeceitful Heartsevil, origins ofBeing Born In SinHeart, Fallen And RedeemedHuman NatureMedicineMind, The HumanMorality, And CreationDeception In Fallen Human NatureCorrupted ConsciencesSelf Righteousness, Nature OfSin, Causes OfSin, Universality OfSpirit, Fallen And RedeemedDepravity Of Man
Because sentence against an evil deed is not carried out quickly, the heart of {humans} fills up within them to do evil.
An abomination of Yahweh [are] the {crooked of heart}, but his delight [are] {those with blameless ways}.
perversion in his heart, he devises evil; at all times he will send out discord.
And Yahweh saw that the evil of humankind [was] great upon the earth, and every inclination of the thoughts of his heart [was] always only evil.
Verse Concepts
For [although they] knew God, they did not honor [him] as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their reasoning, and their senseless hearts were darkened.
This [is] the {injustice} that is done under the sun: the same fate [comes] to everyone. Also the hearts of {humans} are full [of] evil; delusion [is] in their hearts during their lives, and then they die.
"You obtained this for yourself [because of] your way and your deeds. This [is] your doom, for [it is] bitter, yes, it has reached up to your heart."
character of the unrenewed Heart » Full of vain thoughts
Cleanse your heart from wickedness, Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. {How long} will your thoughts of mischief dwell in your inner part?
Jeremiah » The prophet » Lamentations of » Over jerusalem
{Oh that my head were waters}, and my eyes a fountain of tears, so that I might weep day and night, [for] the slain of the daughter of my people.
Cleanse your heart from wickedness, Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. {How long} will your thoughts of mischief dwell in your inner part? For a voice [is] declaring from Dan, and [is] proclaiming disaster from the mountain of Ephraim. "Report to the nations, 'Here they are!' Proclaim against Jerusalem, 'Besiegers [are] coming {from a distant land}, and they raise their voice against the cities of Judah.' read more.
Like watchers of a field they were against her from all around, because she has rebelled against me," {declares} Yahweh. "You obtained this for yourself [because of] your way and your deeds. This [is] your doom, for [it is] bitter, yes, it has reached up to your heart."
Like watchers of a field they were against her from all around, because she has rebelled against me," {declares} Yahweh. "You obtained this for yourself [because of] your way and your deeds. This [is] your doom, for [it is] bitter, yes, it has reached up to your heart."
"My comfort [is gone] from me, sorrow [is] on me, my heart [is] sick. Look, the sound of the cry for help of the daughter of my people from a distant land, 'Is Yahweh not in Zion? Is her king not in her?' Why have they provoked me to anger with their images, with idols of a foreign land?" [The] harvest has passed, [the] summer has come to an end, and we have not received help. read more.
"Because of the wound of the daughter of my people I am broken down, I mourn, horror has seized me.
"Because of the wound of the daughter of my people I am broken down, I mourn, horror has seized me.
Woe to me, because of my wound. My wound [is] incurable. But I said, "Surely this [is my] sickness, and I must bear it." My tent is devastated, and all my tent cords are torn. My children have gone out [from] me, and they are not. There is no [one who] pitches my tent again, or [one who] puts up my tent curtains. For the shepherds have become stupid, they do not seek Yahweh. {Therefore} they do not have insight, and all of their flock are scattered. read more.
Listen, news: Look, [it is] coming, a great roar from [the] land of [the] north, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a lair of jackals.
Listen, news: Look, [it is] coming, a great roar from [the] land of [the] north, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a lair of jackals.
Purification of heart » Cleansing, spiritual » Encouraged
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse [your] hands, [you] sinners, and purify [your] hearts, [you] double-minded!
Therefore [since we] have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of body and spirit, accomplishing holiness in the fear of God.
And now why are you delaying? Get up, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on his name!'
Therefore, if someone cleanses himself from these [things], he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart, useful to the Master, prepared for every good work.
And everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as that one is pure.
Wash! Make yourselves clean! Remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes! Cease to do evil!
Cleanse your heart from wickedness, Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. {How long} will your thoughts of mischief dwell in your inner part?
Clean out the old leaven in order that you may be a new batch of dough, just as you are unleavened. For Christ our Passover has been sacrificed.
Spiritual » Cleansing » Spiritual encouraged
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse [your] hands, [you] sinners, and purify [your] hearts, [you] double-minded!
Therefore [since we] have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of body and spirit, accomplishing holiness in the fear of God.
And now why are you delaying? Get up, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on his name!'
Therefore, if someone cleanses himself from these [things], he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart, useful to the Master, prepared for every good work.
And everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as that one is pure.
Wash! Make yourselves clean! Remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes! Cease to do evil!
Cleanse your heart from wickedness, Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. {How long} will your thoughts of mischief dwell in your inner part?
Clean out the old leaven in order that you may be a new batch of dough, just as you are unleavened. For Christ our Passover has been sacrificed.
Thoughts » Evil
For from the heart come evil plans, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, abusive speech.
Cleanse your heart from wickedness, Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. {How long} will your thoughts of mischief dwell in your inner part?
Devising folly [is] a sin, and an abomination to humankind [is] a scoffer.
{Take care} so that there will not be {a thought of wickedness} in your heart, {saying}, 'The seventh year, the year of the remission of debt is near,' {and you view your needy neighbor with hostility}, and [so] you [do] not give to him, and he might cry [out] against you to Yahweh, and {you would incur guilt against yourself}.
{They carefully plot} injustices [saying], "We have perfected {the perfect plot}!" Both [the] {inner thought} and heart of man [are] deep.
Yahweh knows [the] thoughts of humankind, that {they [are] to no purpose}.
Plans of evil [are] an abomination of Yahweh, but gracious words are pure.
For, like hair in his {throat}, so it is. "Eat and drink!" he will say to you, but his heart will not be with you.
"And I--their works and thoughts!--[am] about to come to gather all nations and tongues, and they shall come and see my glory.
And knowing their thoughts, Jesus said, "Why do you think evil in your hearts?