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`` This makes it plain , '' said Robert . `` Water can not wash away sins except in a figurative way . It is the blood that cleanses . Read Rev. 1:5 -LRB- last sentence -RRB- , and Col. 1:15 . '' '' ` Unto him that loved us , and washed us from our sins in his own blood , ' '' read Mary Davis . `` This is Rev. 1:5 . Col. 1:14 says , ` In whom we have redemption through his blood , even the forgiveness of sins . ' ''