Verse 3

O Jah, if you took note of every sin, who would go free?

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 143:2 : 2 Let not your servant come before you to be judged; for no man living is upright in your eyes.
  • Job 10:14 : 14 That, if I did wrong, you would take note of it, and would not make me clear from sin:
  • Ps 76:7 : 7 You, you are to be feared; who may keep his place before you in the time of your wrath?
  • Job 15:14 : 14 What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?
  • Job 9:2-3 : 2 Truly, I see that it is so: and how is it possible for a man to get his right before God? 3 If a man was desiring to go to law with him, he would not be able to give him an answer to one out of a thousand questions.
  • Job 9:20 : 20 Though I was in the right, he would say that I was in the wrong; I have done no evil; but he says that I am a sinner.
  • Isa 53:6 : 6 We all went wandering like sheep; going every one of us after his desire; and the Lord put on him the punishment of us all.
  • Nah 1:6 : 6 Who may keep his place before his wrath? and who may undergo the heat of his passion? his wrath is let loose like fire and the rocks are broken open by him.
  • Mal 3:2 : 2 But by whom may the day of his coming be faced? and who may keep his place when he is seen? for he is like the metal-tester's fire and the cleaner's soap.
  • John 8:7-9 : 7 But when they went on with their questions, he got up and said to them, Let him among you who is without sin be the first to send a stone at her. 8 And again, with bent head, he made letters on the floor. 9 And when his words came to their ears, they went out one by one, starting with the oldest even to the last, because they were conscious of what was in their hearts: and Jesus was there by himself with the woman before him.
  • Rom 3:20-24 : 20 Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin. 21 But now without the law there is a revelation of the righteousness of God, to which witness is given by the law and the prophets; 22 That is, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ, to all those who have faith; and one man is not different from another, 23 For all have done wrong and are far from the glory of God; 24 And they may have righteousness put to their credit, freely, by his grace, through the salvation which is in Christ Jesus:
  • Rev 6:17 : 17 For the great day of their wrath is come, and who may keep his place?