Isaiah 1:16-18

16 Wash and make yourselves clean. Take your evil deeds out of my sight; stop doing wrong.
17 Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed.[a]Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.
18 “Come now, let us settle the matter,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.

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Cross References 11

  • 1. S Ruth 3:3; Matthew 27:24; James 4:8
  • 2. Numbers 19:11,16; Isaiah 52:11
  • 3. Isaiah 55:7; Jeremiah 25:5
  • 4. S Psalms 34:14
  • 5. S Psalms 72:1; Isaiah 11:4; Isaiah 33:5; Isaiah 56:1; Isaiah 61:8; Amos 5:14-15; Micah 6:8; Zephaniah 2:3
  • 6. S Deuteronomy 14:29
  • 7. ver 23; Job 22:9; Psalms 82:3; Psalms 94:6; Isaiah 10:2
  • 8. S Exodus 22:22; Ezekiel 18:31; Ezekiel 22:7; Luke 18:3; James 1:27
  • 9. S 1 Samuel 2:25; Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 43:9,26
  • 10. S Psalms 51:7; Revelation 7:14
  • 11. Isaiah 55:7

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Or "justice." / "Correct the oppressor"
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