Yet the righteous holds to his way, and he who has clean hands grows stronger and stronger.
But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day.
When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood. Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil,
He delivers even the one who is not innocent, who will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.”
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
One who is wise is cautious and turns away from evil, but a fool is reckless and careless.
They go from strength to strength; each one appears before God in Zion.
Did he not himself say to me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this.”
All in vain have I kept my heart clean and washed my hands in innocence.
I wash my hands in innocence and go around your altar, O Lord,
And a highway shall be there, and it shall be called the Way of Holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it. It shall belong to those who walk on the way; even if they are fools, they shall not go astray. No lion shall be there, nor shall any ravenous beast come up on it; they shall not be found there, but the redeemed shall walk there. And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us.
who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed.
For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly.
He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully.
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