Isaiah 1:16-17 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil; Men are wanted who are prepared to march in the van of the army of national, civic, and personal reformers, — men with the one thought dominating them that God the Father lives, and loves with an everlasting love every member of the human race, — men who, influenced by this irresistible intuition, seek to purge and purify politics and trade, society and the Church, law and custom, speech and practice, of all things that oppress and injure, and which in any way retard the triumph of the kingdom of God. The watchword still is, "Cease to do evil," etc. (F. Sessions.) Parallel Verses KJV: Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; |
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