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Isaiah 1:17

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Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

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Before

16Wash yourselves. Make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.

Isaiah 1:17

Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

After

18“Come now, and let’s reason together,” says the LORD: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

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