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Summary

And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?

How much rather

Bible References

His servants

2 Kings 5:3
She told her mistress, "If only my master were in the presence of the prophet who is in Samaria! Then he would cure him of his skin disease."
1 Samuel 25:14
But one of the servants told Nabal's wife Abigail, "David sent messengers from the desert to greet our lord, but he screamed at them.
1 Kings 20:23
Now the advisers of the king of Syria said to him: "Their God is a god of the mountains. That's why they overpowered us. But if we fight them in the plains, we will certainly overpower them.
Job 32:8
But it is a spirit in people, the breath of the Almighty, that makes them understand.
Jeremiah 38:7
An Ethiopian, Ebed Melech, a court official in the royal palace, heard that Jeremiah had been put in the cistern. While the king was holding court at the Benjamin Gate,

How much rather

1 Corinthians 1:21
For since in the wisdom of God the world by its wisdom did not know God, God was pleased to save those who believe by the foolishness of preaching.

Wash

2 Kings 5:10
Elisha sent out a messenger who told him, "Go and wash seven times in the Jordan; your skin will be restored and you will be healed."
Psalm 51:2
Wash away my wrongdoing! Cleanse me of my sin!
Isaiah 1:16
Wash! Cleanse yourselves! Remove your sinful deeds from my sight. Stop sinning!
John 13:8
Peter said to him, "You will never wash my feet!" Jesus replied, "If I do not wash you, you have no share with me."
Acts 22:16
And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and have your sins washed away, calling on his name.'
Ephesians 5:26
to sanctify her by cleansing her with the washing of the water by the word,
Titus 3:5
he saved us not by works of righteousness that we have done but on the basis of his mercy, through the washing of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,
Hebrews 10:22
let us draw near with a sincere heart in the assurance that faith brings, because we have had our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water.
1 Peter 3:21
And this prefigured baptism, which now saves you -- not the washing off of physical dirt but the pledge of a good conscience to God -- through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
Revelation 7:14
So I said to him, "My lord, you know the answer." Then he said to me, "These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb!

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