Proverbs 20:9

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

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  • 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,
  • Job 14:4 : 4 Who can bring what is pure out of the unclean? No one.
  • Eccl 7:20 : 20 Surely there is no one righteous on earth who always does good and never sins.
  • 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,
  • 1 Cor 4:4 : 4 I am not aware of anything against myself, but that does not make me innocent. The one who judges me is the Lord.
  • Jas 3:2 : 2 For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to also control his whole body.
  • 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.
  • Job 15:14 : 14 What is man, that he could be pure, or one born of a woman, that he could be righteous?
  • Job 25:4 : 4 How then can a mortal be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?
  • Ps 51:5 : 5 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.

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  • Job 14:3-4
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    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 33:9
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    9'I am pure, without sin; I am innocent, and there is no iniquity in me.'

  • Ps 19:12-13
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    12By them Your servant is warned; in keeping them there is great reward.

    13Who can discern their own errors? Cleanse me from my hidden faults.

  • Ps 73:13
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    13Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure and washed my hands in innocence.

  • Job 9:28-30
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    28I still dread all my suffering, for I know You will not hold me innocent.

    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 51:2-4
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    2When Nathan the prophet came to him after David had gone to Bathsheba.

    3Be gracious to me, O God, according to your lovingkindness; according to the abundance of your compassion, blot out my transgressions.

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

  • Job 11:4
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    4For you say, 'My teaching is pure, and I have been clean in your eyes.'

  • Ps 24:3-4
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    3Who may ascend the mountain of the Lord? Who may stand in His holy place?

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

  • Job 9:20-21
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    20Even if I were righteous, my own mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would prove me perverse.

    21Though I am blameless, I do not even understand myself; I despise my life.

  • Job 7:20
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    20If I have sinned, what have I done to you, you who see everything we do? Why have you made me your target? Have I become a burden to you?

  • Job 35:3
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    3For you ask, 'What advantage is it to me? What do I gain by not sinning?'

  • Eccl 7:20
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    20Surely there is no one righteous on earth who always does good and never sins.

  • Job 10:6-7
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    6Do You search for my iniquity and investigate my sin?

    7You know that I am not wicked, and that no one can deliver me from Your hand.

  • Ps 51:9-10
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    9Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

    10Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice.

  • Job 16:17
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    17Yet my hands are free of violence, and my prayer is pure.

  • Job 31:7
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    7If my steps have turned from the way, or if my heart has followed my eyes, or if any stain has clung to my hands,

  • Prov 30:12
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    12There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes, yet it is not cleansed from its filth.

  • Job 25:4
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    4How then can a mortal be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?

  • Job 4:17
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    17Can a mortal be more righteous than God? Can a man be purer than his Maker?

  • Jer 2:35
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    35Yet 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.'

  • Prov 20:8
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    8A king who sits on the throne of judgment disperses all evil with his eyes.

  • Ps 17:3
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    3You have tested my heart; you have visited me at night. You have refined me and found no evil. I have resolved that my mouth will not transgress.

  • Jer 17:9
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    9The heart is deceitful above all things and incurable—who can understand it?

  • Job 15:14
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    14What is man, that he could be pure, or one born of a woman, that he could be righteous?

  • Ps 139:23
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    23Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.

  • Job 10:14
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    14If I sin, You watch me, and You will not acquit me of my guilt.

  • Job 13:23
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    23How many are my iniquities and sins? Reveal my transgression and my sin to me.

  • 2 Sam 22:24
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    24I have been blameless before him and have kept myself from iniquity.

  • Prov 16:2
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    2All a person’s ways seem pure to them, but the Lord weighs the spirit.

  • Job 36:23
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    23Who has appointed His path for Him, or who can say, 'You have done wrong'?

  • Ps 51:7
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    7Surely I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.

  • Ps 18:23
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    23All His judgments are before me, and I have not turned away from His statutes.

  • Prov 20:10
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    10Differing weights and differing measures—both are detestable to the Lord.

  • Job 33:27
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    27They sing before others and say, 'I have sinned and perverted what was right, but it was not repaid to me.'

  • Mic 6:11
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    11Shall I acquit a person with crooked scales and a bag of deceptive weights?

  • Job 9:2
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    2Truly, I know this is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?

  • Ps 130:3
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    3If You, LORD, keep a record of iniquities, Lord, who could stand?

  • Job 34:32
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    32'Teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I will not do it again.'

  • Ps 38:18
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    18For I am ready to fall, and my pain is continually before me.

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    6I will wash my hands in innocence, and I will go around Your altar, Lord,