Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.
⛓ Read Isaiah 1 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean' lies behind 'cleanse your hands, you sinners,' the prophetic call to moral purification.
High confidenceEcho3
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Isaiah's prophetic summons 'wash yourselves, make yourselves clean, remove the evil of your deeds' supplies the ethical-cleansing register Paul uses against 'defilement of flesh and spirit.' The echo moves the cultic language of purity into moral self-purification, exactly Isaiah's prophetic move. Recurrence of Isaiah elsewhere in the chapter (49:13 below) strengthens the case for availability and authorial intent.
Medium confidence'Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean, remove the evil of your deeds' offers a prophetic moral-cleansing backdrop to 'you were washed' following a vice list. Faint and contested against the stronger ritual/Spirit cleansing of Ezek 36:25.
Low confidence'wash away your sins' (v16) echoes 'Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean, remove the evil of your deeds' — the prophetic call to cleansing. Verbal overlap on 'wash'; thematic coherence with repentance.
Low confidence