4 From an unclean thing what can be cleansed? From that which is false what can be true? (WEB)
Sirach 34:4
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Job 14:3–5
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Proverbs 20:8–10
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Job 6:29–30
29 Reconsider; do not be unjust. Reconsider, for my righteousness is at stake. 30 Is there iniquity on my tongue? Can my mouth not discern malice?
Job 15:13–15
13 as you turn your spirit against God and pour such words from your mouth? 14 What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous? 15 If God puts no trust in His holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in His eyes,
Job 25:3–5
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James 3:10–12
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Sirach 34:24–26
24 When one prays, and another curses, whose voice will the Lord listen to? (WEB) 25 He who washes himself after touching a dead body, and touches it again, what does he gain by his washing? (WEB) 26 Even so a man fasting for his sins, and going again, and doing the same, who will… (WEB)
Mark 7:17–19
17 After Jesus had left the crowd and gone into the house, His disciples inquired about the parable. 18 “Are you still so dull?” He asked. “Do you not understand? Nothing that enters a man from the outside can defile him, 19 because it does not enter his heart, but it g…
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