Isaiah 1:16

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Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

Let your actions then show your repentance:

to quit the vicious habits of your former conversation, corrupted by deceitful passions:

For the divine savour has display'd its salutary effects to all mankind:

Renouncing therefore every kind of malice, and knavery, hypocrisy, envy, and detraction, as new-born infants desire that mystical milk,

Let love be without dissimulation. abhor that which is evil, adhere to that which is good.

Wherefore leave off the practice of lying, and let every man speak truth to his neighbour: for we are all members of one society.

he must avoid vice, practise virtue, seek peace, and persevere in the enquiry.