“We are not washed in order that we may cease sinning, but because we have ceased, since in heart we have been bathed already.”
Tertullian, 3th c. — On Repentance
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26Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
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In context
24Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
25Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
— Matthew 23:26 —
27Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.
28Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.