salvation precepts

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean:  wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.  Psalms 51.7

Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord:  though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.  Isaiah 1.18

Psalms 51

A Prayer for Cleansing

1  Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving-kindness:  according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

2  Wash me thoroughly 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.  (Rom. 3.4)

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.

8  Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

9  Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out ALL mine iniquities.

10  Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

11  Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy Holy Spirit from me.

12  Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free Spirit.

13  Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.

14  Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation:  and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

15  O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall show forth thy praise.

16  For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it:  thou delightest not in burnt offering.

17  The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit:  a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

Isaiah 1

16  Wash ye, 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.