Proverbs 20:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • 1 Kgs 8:46 : 46 If they sin against you, (for there is no man that does not sin,) and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives to the land of the enemy, far or near;
  • Job 14:4 : 4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
  • Eccl 7:20 : 20 For there is not a just man on earth who does good and does not sin.
  • 2 Chr 6:36 : 36 If they sin against you, (for there is no man who does not sin,) and you are angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they carry them away captive to a land far off or near;
  • 1 Cor 4:4 : 4 For I know nothing against myself, yet I am not justified by this; but He who judges me is the Lord.
  • Jas 3:2 : 2 For in many things we all stumble. If anyone does not stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.
  • 1 John 1:8-9 : 8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
  • Job 15:14 : 14 What is man, that he should be clean? And he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
  • Job 25:4 : 4 How then can man be righteous before God? Or how can he be clean who is born of a woman?
  • Ps 51:5 : 5 Behold, I was shaped in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.

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    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 33:9
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    9I am clean, without transgression; I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.

  • Ps 19:12-13
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    12Who can understand his errors? Cleanse me from secret faults.

    13Keep your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me. Then shall I be upright, and shall be innocent from the great transgression.

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

  • Job 9:28-30
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    28I am afraid of all my sorrows; I know that You will not hold me innocent.

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

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

  • Ps 51:2-4
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    2Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

    3For I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.

    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.

  • Job 11:4
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    4For you have said, 'My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in your eyes.'

  • Ps 24:3-4
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    3Who shall ascend the hill of the LORD? Or who shall stand in His holy place?

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

  • Job 9:20-21
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    20If I justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

    21Though I were perfect, yet I would not know my soul: I would despise my life.

  • Job 7:20
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    20I have sinned; what shall I do unto you, O preserver of men? Why have you set me as a mark against you, so that I am a burden to myself?

  • Job 35:3
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    3For you said, What advantage will it be to you? and, What profit shall I have, if I am cleansed from my sin?

  • Eccl 7:20
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    20For there is not a just man on earth who does good and does not sin.

  • Job 10:6-7
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    6That You inquire after my iniquity and search after my sin?

    7You know that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of Your hand.

  • Ps 51:9-10
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    9Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.

    10Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

  • Job 16:17
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    17Not for any injustice in my hands; also, my prayer is pure.

  • Job 31:7
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    7If my step has turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any stain has cleaved to my hands;

  • Prov 30:12
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    12There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes and yet is not cleansed from their filthiness.

  • Job 25:4
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    4How then can man be righteous before God? Or how can he be clean who is born of a woman?

  • Job 4:17
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    17Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his maker?

  • Jer 2:35
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    35Yet you say, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with you, because you say, I have not sinned.

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

  • Ps 17:3
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    3You have tested my heart; you have visited me in the night; you have tried me, and shall find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

  • Jer 17:9
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    9The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

  • Job 15:14
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    14What is man, that he should be clean? And he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

  • Ps 139:23
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    23Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts;

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    14If I sin, then You mark me, and You will not acquit me from my iniquity.

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

  • 2 Sam 22:24
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    24I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from my iniquity.

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    2All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes; but the LORD weighs the spirits.

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

  • Ps 51:7
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    7Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

  • Ps 18:23
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    23I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from my iniquity.

  • Prov 20:10
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    10Diverse weights and diverse measures, both of them are alike an abomination to the LORD.

  • Job 33:27
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    27He looks upon men, and if any say, I have sinned and perverted what was right, and it did not profit me;

  • Mic 6:11
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    11Shall I count them pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?

  • Job 9:2
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    2I know this is true: but how can a man be righteous before God?

  • Ps 130:3
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    3If you, LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who can stand?

  • Job 34:32
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    32That which I do not see, teach me; if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.

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    18For I will declare my iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

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    6I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will circle Your altar, O LORD,