Jeremiah 4:14
4:14 “Oh people of Jerusalem, purify your hearts from evil
so that you may yet be delivered.
How long will you continue to harbor up
wicked schemes within you?
Psalms 94:4
94:4 They spew out threats and speak defiantly;
all the evildoers boast.
Psalms 94:8
94:8 Take notice of this, you ignorant people!
You fools, when will you ever understand?
Ezekiel 24:13
24:13 You mix uncleanness with obscene conduct.
I tried to cleanse you, but you are not clean.
You will not be cleansed from your uncleanness
until I have exhausted my anger on you.
Ezekiel 36:25
36:25 I will sprinkle you with pure water
and you will be clean from all your impurities. I will purify you from all your idols.
Ezekiel 36:37
36:37 “This is what the sovereign Lord says: I will allow the house of Israel to ask me to do this for them: I will multiply their people like sheep.
Luke 11:9-13
11:9 “So I tell you: Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.
11:10 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
11:11 What father among you, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead of a fish?
11:12 Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?
11:13 If you then, although you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
Luke 11:2
11:2 So he said to them, “When you pray,
say:
Father, may your name be honored;
may your kingdom come.
Colossians 1:1
Salutation
1:1 From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,