2 Chronicles 30:18-20
30:18 The majority of the many people from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun were ceremonially unclean, yet they ate the Passover in violation of what is prescribed in the law.
For Hezekiah prayed for them, saying: “May the
Lord, who is good, forgive
30:19 everyone who has determined to follow God,
the
Lord God of his ancestors, even if he is not ceremonially clean according to the standards of the temple.”
30:20 The
Lord responded favorably
to Hezekiah and forgave
the people.
Ezra 9:15
9:15 O
Lord God of Israel, you are righteous, for we are left as a remnant this day. Indeed, we stand before you in our guilt. However, because of this guilt
no one can really stand before you.”
Isaiah 64:6
64:6 We are all like one who is unclean,
all our so-called righteous acts are like a menstrual rag in your sight.
We all wither like a leaf;
our sins carry us away like the wind.
Daniel 9:18
9:18 Listen attentively,
my God, and hear! Open your eyes and look on our desolated ruins
and the city called by your name.
For it is not because of our own righteous deeds that we are praying to you,
but because your compassion is abundant.
Matthew 22:11-13
22:11 But when the king came in to see the wedding guests, he saw a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes.
22:12 And he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ But he had nothing to say.
22:13 Then the king said to his attendants, ‘Tie him up hand and foot and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth!’
Revelation 7:13-14
7:13 Then one of the elders asked me, “These dressed in long white robes – who are they and where have they come from?”
7:14 So I said to him, “My lord, you know the answer.” Then he said to me, “These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb!
Revelation 19:8
19:8 She was permitted to be dressed in bright, clean, fine linen” (for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints).