Isaiah 1:16-20

16Wash and make yourselves clean. Take your evil deeds out of my sight; stop doing wrong.

17Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Or justice. / Correct the oppressor Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.

18“Come now, let us settle the matter,” says the LORD . “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.

19If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good things of the land;

20but if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.