Psalms 143:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Let not your servant come before you to be judged; for no man living is upright in your eyes.

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Referenced Verses

  • 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.
  • Rom 3:20 : 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.
  • Job 14:3 : 3 Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?
  • 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 130:3 : 3 O Jah, if you took note of every sin, who would go free?
  • Job 15:14 : 14 What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?
  • Job 4:17 : 17 May a man be upright before God? or a man be clean before his Maker?
  • Gal 2:16 : 16 Being conscious that a man does not get righteousness by the works of the law, but through faith in Jesus Christ, we had faith in Christ Jesus, so that we might get righteousness by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law will no flesh get righteousness.
  • 1 John 1:10 : 10 If we say that we have no sin, we make him false and his word is not in us.
  • 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.
  • Exod 34:7 : 7 Having mercy on thousands, overlooking evil and wrongdoing and sin; he will not let wrongdoers go free, but will send punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, and on their children's children to the third and fourth generation.
  • 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;

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