Isaiah 1:18
Come now, and let us reason together, says 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.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
In Context
17Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
19If all of you be willing and obedient, all of you shall eat the good of the land:
Cross References
Psalms 51:7Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Isaiah 1:23Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loves gifts, and follows after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come unto them.
Isaiah 41:1Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.
Isaiah 43:24You have bought me no sweet cane with money, neither have you filled me with the fat of your sacrifices: but you have made me to serve with your sins, you have wearied me with yours iniquities.
Isaiah 44:22I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed you.
Micah 6:2Hear all of you, O mountains, the LORD's controversy, and all of you strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD has a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 1:17-21
A Call to Repentance; Repentance and Reformation Urged. ( b. c. 738.) 16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; 17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. 18 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. 19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the… Read the whole commentary →