Jeremiah 4:14
Good News Translation
Jerusalem, wash the evil from your heart, so that you may be saved. How long will you go on thinking sinful thoughts?

New Revised Standard Version
O Jerusalem, wash your heart clean of wickedness so that you may be saved. How long shall your evil schemes lodge within you?

Contemporary English Version
But Jerusalem, there is still time for you to be saved. Wash the evil from your hearts and stop making sinful plans,

New American Bible
Cleanse your heart of evil, Jerusalem, that you may be saved. How long will you entertain wicked schemes?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Wash thy heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, that thou mayst be saved: how long shall hurtful thoughts abide in thee?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wash thy heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, that thou mayst be saved: how long shall hurtful thoughts abide in thee?

wash

Isaiah 1:16-19 Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes, cease to do perversely, . . .

Isaiah 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unjust man his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God: for he is bountiful to forgive.

Ezekiel 18:31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, by which you have transgressed, and make to yourselves a new heart, and a new spirit: and why will you die, O house of Israel?

Matthew 12:33 Either make the tree good and its fruit good: or make the tree evil, and its fruit evil. For by the fruit the tree is known.

Matthew 15:19,20 For from the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies. . . .

Matthew 23:26,27 Thou blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and of the dish, that the outside may become clean. . . .

Luke 11:39 And the Lord said to him: Now you, Pharisees, make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter: but your inside is full of rapine and iniquity.

James 4:8 Draw nigh to God: and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

how long

Jeremiah 13:27 I have seen thy adulteries, and thy neighing, the wickedness of thy fornication: and thy abominations, upon the hills in the field. Woe to thee, Jerusalem, wilt thou not be made clean after me: how long yet?

Psalm 66:18 If I have looked at iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me.

Psalm 119:113 I have hated the unjust: and have loved thy law.

Proverbs 1:22 Turn ye at my reproof: behold I will utter my spirit to you, and will shew you my words.

Acts 8:22 Do penance therefore for this thy wickedness: and pray to God, that perhaps this thought of thy heart may be forgiven thee.

Romans 1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they have not glorified him as God or given thanks: but became vain in their thoughts. And their foolish heart was darkened.

1 Corinthians 3:20 And again: The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

Context
Disaster from the North
13Behold he shall come up as a cloud, and his chariots as a tempest: his horses are swifter than eagles: woe unto us, for we are laid waste. 14Wash thy heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, that thou mayst be saved: how long shall hurtful thoughts abide in thee?15For a voice of one declaring from Dan, and giving notice of the idol from mount Ephraim.…
Cross References
James 4:8
Draw nigh to God: and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

Psalm 51:2
Wash me yet more from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

Proverbs 1:22
Turn ye at my reproof: behold I will utter my spirit to you, and will shew you my words.

Jeremiah 2:22
Though thou wash thyself with nitre, and multiply to thyself the herb borith, thou art stained in thy iniquity before me, saith the Lord God.

Jeremiah 6:19
Hear, O earth: Behold I will bring evils upon this people, the fruits of their own thoughts: because they have not heard my words, and they have cast away my law.

Jeremiah 13:27
I have seen thy adulteries, and thy neighing, the wickedness of thy fornication: and thy abominations, upon the hills in the field. Woe to thee, Jerusalem, wilt thou not be made clean after me: how long yet?

Jeremiah 17:1
The sin of Juda is written with a pen of iron, with the point of a diamond, it is graven upon the table of their heart, upon the horns of their altars.

Zechariah 8:17
And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his friend: and love not a false oath: for all these are the things that I hate, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 4:13
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