Verse 17
May a man be upright before God? or a man be clean before his Maker?
Referenced Verses
- Job 9:2 : 2 Truly, I see that it is so: and how is it possible for a man to get his right before God?
- Job 25:4 : 4 How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman?
- Ps 143:2 : 2 Let not your servant come before you to be judged; for no man living is upright in your eyes.
- Ps 145:17 : 17 The Lord is upright in all his ways, and kind in all his works.
- Eccl 7:20 : 20 There is no man on earth of such righteousness that he does good and is free from sin all his days.
- Jer 12:1 : 1 You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort?
- Jer 17:9 : 9 The heart is a twisted thing, not to be searched out by man: who is able to have knowledge of it?
- Mark 7:20-23 : 20 And he said, That which comes out of the man, that makes the man unclean. 21 Because from inside, from the heart of men, come evil thoughts and unclean pleasures, 22 The taking of goods and of life, broken faith between husband and wife, the desire of wealth, wrongdoing, deceit, sins of the flesh, an evil eye, angry words, pride, foolish acts: 23 All these evil things come from inside, and make the man unclean.
- Rom 2:5 : 5 But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;
- Rom 3:4-7 : 4 In no way: but let God be true, though every man is seen to be untrue; as it is said in the Writings, That your words may be seen to be true, and you may be seen to be right when you are judged. 5 But if the righteousness of God is supported by our wrongdoing what is to be said? is it wrong for God to be angry (as men may say)? 6 In no way: because if it is so, how is God able to be the judge of all the world? 7 But if, because I am untrue, God being seen to be true gets more glory, why am I to be judged as a sinner?
- Rom 9:20 : 20 But, O man, who are you, to make answer against God? May the thing which is made say to him who made it, Why did you make me so?
- Rom 11:33 : 33 O how deep is the wealth of the wisdom and knowledge of God! no one is able to make discovery of his decisions, and his ways may not be searched out.
- Rev 4:8 : 8 And the four beasts, having every one of them six wings, are full of eyes round about and inside: and without resting day and night, they say, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God, Ruler of all, who was and is and is to come.
- Job 35:2 : 2 Does it seem to you to be right, and righteousness before God, to say,
- Job 35:10 : 10 But no one has said, Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night;
- Job 40:8 : 8 Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld.
- Job 9:30-31 : 30 If I am washed with snow water, and make my hands clean with soap; 31 Then you will have me pushed into the dust, so that I will seem disgusting to my very clothing.
- Job 14:4 : 4 If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.
- Job 15:14 : 14 What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?
- Gen 18:25 : 25 Let such a thing be far from you, to put the upright to death with the sinner: will not the judge of all the earth do right?
- Job 8:3 : 3 Does God give wrong decisions? or is the Ruler of all not upright in his judging?