Psalms 53:3

For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

Many will purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked will do wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand; but those who are wise will understand.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Yahweh says.’ He who hears, let him hear; and he who refuses, let him refuse; for they are a rebellious house.”

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

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

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

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.

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

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

But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

Whoever remains in him doesn’t sin. Whoever sins hasn’t seen him and doesn’t know him.

Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him, and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.

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

My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have caused them to go astray. They have turned them away on the mountains. They have gone from mountain to hill. They have forgotten their resting place.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

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

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,

Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,

The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

A corrupt witness mocks justice, and the mouth of the wicked gulps down iniquity.

They have all turned away. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not so much as one.”

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

let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

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

For I am Yahweh your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth.

Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path,

Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.

Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.

when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from within it, by the spirit of justice and by the spirit of burning.

Yes, the dogs are greedy. They can never have enough. They are shepherds who can’t understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

I will cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they have sinned against me. I will pardon all their iniquities by which they have sinned against me and by which they have transgressed against me.

Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”

“In that day there will be a spring opened to David’s house and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.

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

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

“Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?

Jesus said therefore again to them, “I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can’t come.”

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

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.

Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,

He shall sprinkle on him who is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird go into the open field.

Depart from evil, and do good. Live securely forever.

Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.

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

Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

so he will cleanse many nations. Kings will shut their mouths at him; for they will see that which had not been told them, and they will understand that which they had not heard.

For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

They won’t defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. So they will be my people, and I will be their God.

Ephraim, what have I to do any more with idols? I answer, and will take care of him. I am like a green cypress tree; from me your fruit is found.”

I will cleanse their blood, that I have not cleansed: for Yahweh dwells in Zion.”

Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing before the angel.

He answered and spoke to those who stood before him, saying, “Take the filthy garments off him.” To him he said, “Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you, and I will clothe you with rich clothing.”

It will come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they will be remembered no more. I will also cause the prophets and the spirit of impurity to pass out of the land.

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

but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.

What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master’s use, prepared for every good work.

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let’s have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,

For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear,

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

Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

So all the men of Israel went up from following David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of Judah joined with their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem.

how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

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.

those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.

For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

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

If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.

Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God.

He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still.”