Isaiah 1:16
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil,
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
In Context
Cross References
2 Kings 17:13And Jehovah testified against Israel and against Judah, by all the prophets, all the seers, saying, Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments, my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you through my servants the prophets.
Psalms 26:6I will wash my hands in innocency, and will encompass thine altar, O Jehovah,
Psalms 37:27Depart from evil, and do good, and dwell for evermore;
Isaiah 55:6Seek ye Jehovah while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near.
Jeremiah 4:14Wash thy heart, Jerusalem, from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
Jeremiah 25:5when they said, Turn again now every one from his evil way, and from the wickedness of your doings, and dwell in the land that Jehovah hath given unto you and to your fathers from of old even for ever.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 1:11-16
The Vanity of Mere Ritual Obedience. ( b. c. 738.) 10 Hear the word of the Lord , ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. 11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord : I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. 12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? 13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is… Read the whole commentary →