Isaiah 1:18

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Summary

Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

And let us

Though your

General references

Ezekiel 33:16

Bible References

And let us

Set forth your case, says the LORD; bring your proofs, says the King of Jacob.

You have not bought me sweet cane with money, or satisfied me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins; you have wearied me with your iniquities.

Now therefore stand still that I may plead with you before the LORD concerning all the righteous deeds of the LORD that he performed for you and for your fathers.

Thus says the LORD: "What wrong did your fathers find in me that they went far from me, and went after worthlessness, and became worthless?

Hear, you mountains, the indictment of the LORD, and you enduring foundations of the earth, for the LORD has an indictment against his people, and he will contend with Israel.

And Paul went in, as was his custom, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and tried to persuade Jews and Greeks.

And as he reasoned about righteousness and self-control and the coming judgment, Felix was alarmed and said, "Go away for the present. When I get an opportunity I will summon you."

Though your

I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud and your sins like mist; return to me, for I have redeemed you.

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love.

Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,

to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.

I said to him, "Sir, you know." And he said to me, "These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

General references

The LORD said to Cain, "Why are you angry, and why has your face fallen?

"And if by this discipline you are not turned to me but walk contrary to me,

And the priest shall take cedarwood and hyssop and scarlet yarn, and throw them into the fire burning the heifer.

If I wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,

None of the sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him. He has done what is just and right; he shall surely live.