Purity

With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.

Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

Therefore you shall keep my requirements, that you do not practice any of these abominable customs which were practiced before you, and that you do not defile yourselves with them. I am Yahweh your God.’”

For I am Yahweh who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.

But your iniquities have separated you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.

not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,