Wash ye, make you clean Repent, and do works meet for repentance: cleanse your hearts and hands from all filthiness of flesh and spirit, and do not content yourselves with your ceremonial washings. He refers to the charge preferred in the preceding clause, and alludes to the legal purifications commanded on several occasions: see Leviticus 14:8-9; Leviticus 14:47. Put away the evil, &c., from before mine eyes Reform yourselves thoroughly, that you may not only approve yourselves to men, but to me, who search your hearts and try all your actions. Learn to do well Begin, and inure yourselves, to live soberly, righteously, and godly. Seek judgment, &c. Show your religion to God, by practising justice and mercy to men. Judge the fatherless, &c. Deliver and defend those that are poor and helpless, and liable to be oppressed by unjust and potent adversaries.
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Isaiah 1:16-17
16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieveh the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.