Verse 14

What is man, that he could be pure, or one born of a woman, that he could be righteous?

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 20:9 : 9 Who can say, 'I have cleansed my heart; I am pure from my sin'?
  • Eccl 7:20 : 20 Surely there is no one righteous on earth who always does good and never sins.
  • Job 14:4 : 4 Who can bring what is pure out of the unclean? No one.
  • Job 25:4-6 : 4 How then can a mortal be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure? 5 Even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure in His sight. 6 How much less a mortal, who is but a maggot, and a human, who is only a worm!
  • Ps 14:3 : 3 They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt. There is no one who does good, not even one.
  • Ps 51:5 : 5 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.
  • 1 Kgs 8:46 : 46 When they sin against You—for there is no one who does not sin—and You become angry with them and give them over to their enemies, who take them captive to a land far away or near,
  • 2 Chr 6:36 : 36 When they sin against You—for there is no one who does not sin—and You are angry with them and deliver them over to their enemies, and they are taken captive to a land far away or near,
  • Job 9:2 : 2 Truly, I know this is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?
  • Eccl 7:29 : 29 This only have I found: God created mankind upright, but they have gone in search of many schemes.
  • John 3:6 : 6 What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
  • Rom 7:18 : 18 For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.
  • Gal 3:22 : 22 But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise, by faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to those who believe.
  • Eph 2:2-3 : 2 In which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 Among them we all also once lived in the desires of our flesh, carrying out the inclinations of the flesh and of the mind, and we were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
  • 1 John 1:8-9 : 8 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just, and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we claim we have not sinned, we make Him out to be a liar, and His word is not in us.