Job 25:4

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How then can a mortal be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?

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  • Job 4:17-19 : 17 Can a mortal be more righteous than God? Can a man be purer than his Maker? 18 Behold, He puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error. 19 How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
  • Job 9:2 : 2 Truly, I know this is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?
  • Job 15:14-16 : 14 What is man, that he could be pure, or one born of a woman, that he could be righteous? 15 Behold, God puts no trust in His holy ones, and even the heavens are not pure in His sight. 16 How much less is a man, who is detestable and corrupt, one who drinks iniquity like water!
  • Ps 130:3 : 3 If You, LORD, keep a record of iniquities, Lord, who could stand?
  • Ps 143:2 : 2 Do not bring your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before you.
  • Rom 5:1 : 1 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • 1 John 1:9 : 9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just, and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
  • Zech 13:1 : 1 On that day, a fountain will be opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to cleanse them from sin and impurity.
  • Ps 51:5 : 5 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.
  • Job 14:3-4 : 3 Do you fix your gaze on such a one and bring me into judgment with you? 4 Who can bring what is pure out of the unclean? No one.
  • Rom 3:19-20 : 19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God. 20 Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
  • Rev 1:5 : 5 And from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by His blood,
  • Eph 2:3 : 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 Cor 6:11 : 11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 15:13-16
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    87%

    13That you turn your spirit against God and let words escape from your mouth?

    14What is man, that he could be pure, or one born of a woman, that he could be righteous?

    15Behold, God puts no trust in His holy ones, and even the heavens are not pure in His sight.

    16How much less is a man, who is detestable and corrupt, one who drinks iniquity like water!

  • Job 4:17
    80%

    17Can a mortal be more righteous than God? Can a man be purer than his Maker?

  • Job 14:3-4
    2 verses
    79%

    3Do you fix your gaze on such a one and bring me into judgment with you?

    4Who can bring what is pure out of the unclean? No one.

  • Job 25:5-6
    2 verses
    78%

    5Even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure in His sight.

    6How much less a mortal, who is but a maggot, and a human, who is only a worm!

  • Job 9:2-3
    2 verses
    75%

    2Truly, I know this is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?

    3If someone desired to argue with Him, they could not answer Him once in a thousand times.

  • Job 25:3
    73%

    3Is there any number to His armies? Upon whom does His light not rise?

  • Prov 20:9
    72%

    9Who can say, 'I have cleansed my heart; I am pure from my sin'?

  • Job 14:1
    72%

    1Man, born of a woman, is short-lived and full of trouble.

  • Job 35:3
    71%

    3For you ask, 'What advantage is it to me? What do I gain by not sinning?'

  • Job 31:14
    70%

    14what will I do when God confronts me? What will I answer when He calls me to account?

  • Job 11:4
    70%

    4For you say, 'My teaching is pure, and I have been clean in your eyes.'

  • Job 33:9
    70%

    9'I am pure, without sin; I am innocent, and there is no iniquity in me.'

  • Job 9:29-30
    2 verses
    69%

    29Since I am already condemned, why should I labor in vain?

    30Even if I washed myself with snow and cleansed my hands with soap,

  • Ps 143:2
    69%

    2Do not bring your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before you.

  • Job 22:3-5
    3 verses
    69%

    3Is it a delight to the Almighty if you are righteous? Or does He gain anything if your ways are blameless?

    4Is it because of your reverence that He rebukes you and brings you into judgment?

    5Is not your wickedness great and your iniquities without end?

  • Job 18:3
    69%

    3Why are we regarded as animals and considered unclean in your eyes?

  • Job 36:23
    69%

    23Who has appointed His path for Him, or who can say, 'You have done wrong'?

  • Ps 51:4-5
    2 verses
    68%

    4Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

    5For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.

  • Job 35:6-7
    2 verses
    68%

    6If you sin, what do you accomplish against God? Even if your transgressions are many, what do you do to Him?

    7If you are righteous, what do you give to Him, or what does He receive from your hand?

  • Ps 24:4
    68%

    4The one with clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up their soul to vanity or swear deceitfully.

  • Job 31:2
    68%

    2For what is the portion from God above, or the inheritance from the Almighty on high?

  • Job 3:3
    68%

    3Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, 'A man is conceived.'

  • Job 7:17
    68%

    17What is mankind that you make so much of them, that you give them so much attention,

  • Job 40:8
    68%

    8Would you indeed annul My justice? Would you condemn Me that you may be justified?

  • Job 10:4
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    4Do You have eyes of flesh? Do You see as a mortal sees?

  • Ezek 18:5
    68%

    5If a man is righteous and does what is just and right,

  • Job 8:3-4
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    68%

    3Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty distort what is right?

    4If your children have sinned against Him, He gave them over to the consequences of their transgressions.

  • Job 34:23
    67%

    23For He does not need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment.

  • Job 4:7
    67%

    7Consider this: Who that is innocent has ever perished? And where have the upright been destroyed?

  • Rom 4:6
    67%

    6Just as David also speaks of the blessedness of the person to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

  • Isa 64:6
    67%

    6No one calls on your name or rouses themselves to take hold of you, for you have hidden your face from us and have melted us away in the grip of our sins.

  • Ps 51:2
    67%

    2When Nathan the prophet came to him after David had gone to Bathsheba.

  • Prov 30:12
    67%

    12There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes, yet it is not cleansed from its filth.

  • Lev 5:3
    67%

    3Or if someone touches human uncleanness, anything that makes a person unclean, and it is hidden from them but then they realize it, they become guilty.

  • Ps 19:12
    67%

    12By them Your servant is warned; in keeping them there is great reward.

  • Rom 3:6
    67%

    6Certainly not! If that were so, how could God judge the world?

  • Job 37:21
    67%

    21Now no one sees the bright light in the clouds, but the wind has passed and cleared them.

  • Hab 1:13
    67%

    13Your eyes are too pure to look on evil, and You cannot tolerate wrongdoing. So why do You tolerate the treacherous? Why are You silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?