Job 25:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

How then can man be righteous before God? Or how can he be clean who is born of a woman?

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  • Job 4:17-19 : 17 Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his maker? 18 Behold, he puts no trust in his servants; and his angels he charges with folly: 19 How much less in those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth?
  • Job 9:2 : 2 I know this is true: but how can a man be righteous before God?
  • Job 15:14-16 : 14 What is man, that he should be clean? And he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? 15 Behold, He puts no trust in His saints; yes, the heavens are not clean in His sight. 16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, who drinks iniquity like water?
  • Ps 130:3 : 3 If you, LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who can stand?
  • Ps 143:2 : 2 And do not enter into judgment with Your servant, for in Your sight no one living shall be justified.
  • Rom 5:1 : 1 Therefore, being 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 to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
  • Zech 13:1 : 1 In that day, there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for impurities.
  • Ps 51:5 : 5 Behold, I was shaped in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.
  • Job 14:3-4 : 3 And do You open Your eyes upon such a one and bring me into judgment with You? 4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
  • Rom 3:19-20 : 19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. 20 Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
  • Rev 1:5 : 5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
  • Eph 2:3 : 3 Among whom also we all had our conduct in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
  • 1 Cor 6:11 : 11 And such were some of you: but you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are 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
    4 verses
    87%

    13That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

    14What is man, that he should be clean? And he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

    15Behold, He puts no trust in His saints; yes, the heavens are not clean in His sight.

    16How much more abominable and filthy is man, who drinks iniquity like water?

  • 17Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his maker?

  • Job 14:3-4
    2 verses
    79%

    3And do You open Your eyes upon such a one and bring me into judgment with You?

    4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

  • Job 25:5-6
    2 verses
    78%

    5Behold, even the moon, and it does not shine; yes, the stars are not pure in His sight.

    6How much less man, who is a worm, and the son of man, who is a worm?

  • Job 9:2-3
    2 verses
    75%

    2I know this is true: but how can a man be righteous before God?

    3If one wishes to contend with Him, he cannot answer Him one in a thousand.

  • 3Is there any number to His armies? And upon whom does not His light rise?

  • 9Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

  • 1Man who is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.

  • 3For you said, What advantage will it be to you? and, What profit shall I have, if I am cleansed from my sin?

  • 14What then shall I do when God rises up? When He visits, what shall I answer Him?

  • 4For you have said, 'My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in your eyes.'

  • 9I am clean, without transgression; I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.

  • Job 9:29-30
    2 verses
    69%

    29If I am wicked, why then do I labor in vain?

    30If I wash myself with snow water, and cleanse my hands thoroughly;

  • 2And do not enter into judgment with Your servant, for in Your sight no one living shall be justified.

  • Job 22:3-5
    3 verses
    69%

    3Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous? Or is it gain to Him that you make your ways perfect?

    4Will He correct you for fear of you? Will He enter into judgment with you?

    5Is not your wickedness great, and your iniquities infinite?

  • 3Why are we counted as beasts, and considered vile in your sight?

  • 23Who has ordered him his way? or who can say, You have done wrong?

  • Ps 51:4-5
    2 verses
    68%

    4Against you, you only, have I sinned and done this evil in your sight, that you may be justified when you speak and be clear when you judge.

    5Behold, I was shaped in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.

  • Job 35:6-7
    2 verses
    68%

    6If you sin, what do you do against him? or if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

    7If you are righteous, what do you give him? or what does he receive from your hand?

  • 4He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to idols, nor sworn deceitfully.

  • 2For what portion of God is there from above? And what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

  • 3Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a male child conceived.

  • 17What is man, that you should magnify him, and that you should set your heart upon him?

  • 8Will you also annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

  • 4Do You have eyes of flesh? Or do You see as man sees?

  • 5But if a man is just and does what is lawful and right,

  • Job 8:3-4
    2 verses
    68%

    3Does God pervert judgment, or does the Almighty pervert justice?

    4If your children have sinned against Him, and He has cast them away for their transgression;

  • 23For He will not lay upon man more than right, that he should enter into judgment with God.

  • 7Remember, I pray you, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the righteous cut off?

  • 6Even as David also describes the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works,

  • 6But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

  • 2Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

  • 12There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes and yet is not cleansed from their filthiness.

  • 3Or if he touches human uncleanness, whatever uncleanness it is that a man may be defiled with, and it is hidden from him; when he becomes aware of it, then he shall be guilty.

  • 12Who can understand his errors? Cleanse me from secret faults.

  • 6Certainly not: for then how will God judge the world?

  • 21And now men do not see the bright light which is in the clouds, but the wind passes and clears them.

  • 13You are of purer eyes than to behold evil and cannot look on wickedness. Why do You look on those who deal treacherously and hold Your tongue when the wicked devours a man more righteous than he?