Matthew 23:26

and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

Therefore tell them: Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Return to me,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will return to you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

From the days of your fathers you have turned away from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says Yahweh of Armies. “But you say, ‘How shall we return?’

You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness, and from all your idols.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;

Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”

“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

Some of you were such, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

Therefore “ ‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.

The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”

For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.

He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.

Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.

to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.

He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

For what great nation is there that has a god so near to them as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

But there is forgiveness with you, therefore you are feared.

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?

I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;

Let Samaria throw out his calf idol! My anger burns against them! How long will it be until they are capable of purity?

Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit, and produces, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.”

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”

He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ Then they began to celebrate.

In him we have boldness and access in confidence through our faith in him.

“Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.’

The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

You shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its innards, and its legs, and put them with its pieces, and with its head.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?

I have seen your abominations, even your adulteries, and your neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, Jerusalem! You will not be made clean. How long will it yet be?”

Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel?

“Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.

You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside make the inside also?

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,