Proverbs 20:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Who is able to say, I have made my heart clean, I am free from my sin?

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 8:46 : 46 If they do wrong against you, (for no man is without sin,) and you are angry with them and give them up into the power of those who are fighting against them, so that they take them away as prisoners into a strange land, far off or near;
  • Job 14:4 : 4 If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.
  • 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.
  • 2 Chr 6:36 : 36 If they do wrong against you, (for no man is without sin,) and you are angry with them, and give them up into the power of those who are fighting against them, so that they take them away prisoners to a land far off or near;
  • 1 Cor 4:4 : 4 For I am not conscious of any wrong in myself; but this does not make me clear, for it is the Lord who is my judge.
  • Jas 3:2 : 2 For we all go wrong in a number of things. If a man never makes a slip in his talk, then he is a complete man and able to keep all his body in control.
  • 1 John 1:8-9 : 8 If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us. 9 If we say openly that we have done wrong, he is upright and true to his word, giving us forgiveness of sins and making us clean from all evil. 10 If we say that we have no sin, we make him false and his word is not in us.
  • Job 15:14 : 14 What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?
  • 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 51:5 : 5 Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Job 14:3-4
    2 verses
    78%

    3 Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?

    4 If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.

  • Job 33:9
    78%

    9 I am clean, without sin; I am washed, and there is no evil in me:

  • Ps 19:12-13
    2 verses
    78%

    12 Who has full knowledge of his errors? make me clean from secret evil.

    13 Keep your servant back from sins of pride; let them not have rule over me: then will I be upright and free from great sin.

  • Ps 73:13
    76%

    13 As for me, I have made my heart clean to no purpose, washing my hands in righteousness;

  • Job 9:28-30
    3 verses
    76%

    28 I go in fear of all my pains; I am certain that I will not be free from sin in your eyes.

    29 You will not let me be clear of sin! why then do I take trouble for nothing?

    30 If I am washed with snow water, and make my hands clean with soap;

  • Ps 51:2-4
    3 verses
    76%

    2 Let all my wrongdoing be washed away, and make me clean from evil.

    3 For I am conscious of my error; my sin is ever before me.

    4 Against you, you only, have I done wrong, working that which is evil in your eyes; so that your words may be seen to be right, and you may be clear when you are judging.

  • Job 11:4
    75%

    4 You may say, My way is clean, and I am free from sin in your eyes.

  • Ps 24:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3 Who may go up into the hill of the Lord? and who may come into his holy place?

    4 He who has clean hands and a true heart; whose desire has not gone out to foolish things, who has not taken a false oath.

  • Job 9:20-21
    2 verses
    74%

    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.

    21 I have done no wrong; I give no thought to what becomes of me; I have no desire for life.

  • Job 7:20
    74%

    20 If I have done wrong, what have I done to you, O keeper of men? why have you made me a mark for your blows, so that I am a weariness to myself?

  • Job 35:3
    74%

    3 What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong?

  • Eccl 7:20
    73%

    20 There is no man on earth of such righteousness that he does good and is free from sin all his days.

  • Job 10:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6 That you take note of my sin, searching after my wrongdoing,

    7 Though you see that I am not an evil-doer; and there is no one who is able to take a man out of your hands?

  • Ps 51:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9 Let your face be turned from my wrongdoing, and take away all my sins.

    10 Make a clean heart in me, O God; give me a right spirit again.

  • Job 16:17
    73%

    17 Though my hands have done no violent acts, and my prayer is clean.

  • Job 31:7
    73%

    7 If my steps have been turned out of the way, or if my heart went after my eyes, or if the property of another is in my hands;

  • Prov 30:12
    73%

    12 There is a generation who seem to themselves to be free from sin, but are not washed from their unclean ways.

  • Job 25:4
    72%

    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?

  • Job 4:17
    72%

    17 May a man be upright before God? or a man be clean before his Maker?

  • Jer 2:35
    72%

    35 And still you said, I have done no wrong; truly, his wrath is turned away from me. See, I will take up the cause against you, because you say, I have done no wrong.

  • Prov 20:8
    72%

    8 A king on the seat of judging puts to flight all evil with his eyes.

  • Ps 17:3
    72%

    3 You have put my heart to the test, searching me in the night; you have put me to the test and seen no evil purpose in me; I will keep my mouth from sin.

  • Jer 17:9
    72%

    9 The heart is a twisted thing, not to be searched out by man: who is able to have knowledge of it?

  • Job 15:14
    72%

    14 What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?

  • Ps 139:23
    71%

    23 O God, let the secrets of my heart be uncovered, and let my wandering thoughts be tested:

  • Job 10:14
    71%

    14 That, if I did wrong, you would take note of it, and would not make me clear from sin:

  • Job 13:23
    71%

    23 What is the number of my evil-doings and my sins? give me knowledge of them.

  • 2 Sam 22:24
    71%

    24 And I was upright before him, and I kept myself from sin.

  • Prov 16:2
    71%

    2 All a man's ways are clean to himself; but the Lord puts men's spirits into his scales.

  • Job 36:23
    71%

    23 Who ever gave orders to him, or said to him, You have done wrong?

  • Ps 51:7
    71%

    7 Make me free from sin with hyssop: let me be washed whiter than snow.

  • Ps 18:23
    71%

    23 And I was upright before him, and I kept myself from sin.

  • Prov 20:10
    71%

    10 Unequal weights and unequal measures, they are all disgusting to the Lord.

  • Job 33:27
    71%

    27 He makes a song, saying, I did wrong, turning from the straight way, but he did not give me the reward of my sin.

  • Mic 6:11
    71%

    11 Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment?

  • Job 9:2
    71%

    2 Truly, I see that it is so: and how is it possible for a man to get his right before God?

  • Ps 130:3
    71%

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

  • Job 34:32
    70%

    32 ...

  • Ps 38:18
    70%

    18 I will make clear my wrongdoing, with sorrow in my heart for my sin.

  • Ps 26:6
    70%

    6 I will make my hands clean from sin; so will I go round your altar, O Lord;