Job 9:30

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

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  • Jer 2:22 : 22 Though you wash yourself with lye and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your guilt is still before me,” declares the Lord GOD.
  • 1 John 1:8 : 8 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.
  • Jer 4:14 : 14 Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will your wicked thoughts lodge within you?
  • Rom 10:3 : 3 For they are ignorant of the righteousness of God and seek to establish their own; they have not submitted to God’s righteousness.
  • Job 31:7 : 7 If my steps have turned from the way, or if my heart has followed my eyes, or if any stain has clung to my hands,
  • Ps 26:6 : 6 I will wash my hands in innocence, and I will go around Your altar, Lord,
  • Prov 28:13 : 13 The one who conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes them will find mercy.
  • Isa 1:16-18 : 16 Wash yourselves and make yourselves clean. Remove your evil deeds from My sight; stop doing evil. 17 Learn to do what is good; seek justice, correct the oppressor. Defend the cause of the fatherless and plead the case of the widow. 18 "Come now, let us reason together," says the LORD. "Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.

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    28 I still dread all my suffering, for I know You will not hold me innocent.

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  • 7 Surely I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.

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

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

  • 17 Yet my hands are free of violence, and my prayer is pure.

  • 7 If my steps have turned from the way, or if my heart has followed my eyes, or if any stain has clung to my hands,

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

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

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

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    19 If it is a matter of strength, He is mighty! And if it is a matter of justice, who can summon Him?

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    23 All His judgments are before me, and I have not turned away from His statutes.

    24 I was blameless before Him and kept myself from my iniquity.

  • 19 He has cast me into the mud, and I am reduced to dust and ashes.

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    3 Otherwise, they will tear me apart like a lion, ripping me to pieces with no one to rescue.

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    14 If I sin, You watch me, and You will not acquit me of my guilt.

    15 If I am wicked, woe to me; if I am righteous, I dare not lift my head, filled with shame and seeing my misery.

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  • 16 Wash yourselves and make yourselves clean. Remove your evil deeds from My sight; stop doing evil.

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

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    24 I have been blameless before him and have kept myself from iniquity.

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    6 Do You search for my iniquity and investigate my sin?

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

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  • 5 If indeed you are exalting yourselves over me and using my disgrace to argue against me,

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  • 35 Yet you say, 'I am innocent; surely his anger has turned away from me.' But I will bring you to judgment because you say, 'I have not sinned.'

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  • 10 I am mute; I will not open my mouth because You have done this.

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