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Jer 2:22 — For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, [yet] thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

For though		Job 9:30,31
yet thine iniquity		Jer 16:17; Jer 17:1; Deu 32:34; Job 14:17; Psa 90:8; Psa 130:3; Hsa 13:12; Amo 8:7

Correlating Passages

For though

	Job 9:30	If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
	Job 9:31	Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.

yet thine iniquity

	Jer 16:17	For mine eyes [are] upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
	Jer 17:1	The sin of Judah [is] written with a pen of iron, [and] with the point of a diamond: [it is] graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;
	Deu 32:34	[Is] not this laid up in store with me, [and] sealed up among my treasures?
	Job 14:17	My transgression [is] sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
	Psa 90:8	Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret [sins] in the light of thy countenance.
	Psa 130:3	If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
	Hsa 13:12	The iniquity of Ephraim [is] bound up; his sin [is] hid.
	Amo 8:7	The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.

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Scott, Thomas. "Jeremiah 2:22," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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