"Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency."
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If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:
As for me, I have made my heart clean to no purpose, washing my hands in righteousness;
Truly have I purified my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency:
Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.
Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence.
Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart, And washed my hands in innocence,
Only -- a vain thing! I have purified my heart, And I wash in innocency my hands,