ABLUTION, FIGURATIVE

Psalms 51:2-7

2. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

3. For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.

4. Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.

5. Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

6. Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

7. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Psalms 65:3

3. Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away.

Psalms 73:13

13. Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.

Psalms 79:9

9. Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.

Proverbs 16:6

6. By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.

Proverbs 20:9

9. Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

Isaiah 1:16-18

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, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

18. Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.