“When there is a case of leprous disease in a garment, whether a woolen or a linen garment,
save others by snatching them out of the fire; to others show mercy with fear, hating even the garment stained by the flesh.
For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires,
The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.
You took some of your garments and made for yourself colorful shrines, and on them played the whore. The like has never been, nor ever shall be.
We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
Their webs will not serve as clothing; men will not cover themselves with what they make. Their works are works of iniquity, and deeds of violence are in their hands.
The Lord said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks, glancing wantonly with their eyes, mincing along as they go, tinkling with their feet, therefore the Lord will strike with a scab the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will lay bare their secret parts. In that day the Lord will take away the finery of the anklets, the headbands, and the crescents; the pendants, the bracelets, and the scarves; the headdresses, the armlets, the sashes, the perfume boxes, and the amulets;
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