Job 15:14
What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
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- Prov 20:9 : 9 Who can say,“I have kept my heart clean; I am pure from my sin”?
- Eccl 7:20 : 20 For there is not one truly righteous person on the earth who continually does good and never sins.
- Job 14:4 : 4 Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean? No one!
- Job 25:4-6 : 4 How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure? 5 If even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure as far as he is concerned, 6 how much less a mortal man, who is but a maggot– a son of man, who is only a worm!”
- Ps 14:3 : 3 Everyone rejects God; they are all morally corrupt. None of them does what is right, not even one!
- Ps 51:5 : 5 Look, I was guilty of sin from birth, a sinner the moment my mother conceived me.
- 1 Kgs 8:46 : 46 “The time will come when your people will sin against you(for there is no one who is sinless!) and you will be angry with them and deliver them over to their enemies, who will take them as prisoners to their own land, whether far away or close by.
- 2 Chr 6:36 : 36 “The time will come when your people will sin against you(for there is no one who is sinless!) and you will be angry at them and deliver them over to their enemies, who will take them as prisoners to their land, whether far away or close by.
- Job 9:2 : 2 “Truly, I know that this is so. But how can a human be just before God?
- Eccl 7:29 : 29 This alone have I discovered: God made humankind upright, but they have sought many evil schemes.
- John 3:6 : 6 What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
- Rom 7:18 : 18 For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I want to do the good, but I cannot do it.
- Gal 3:22 : 22 But the scripture imprisoned everything under sin so that the promise could be given– because of the faithfulness of Jesus Christ– to those who believe.
- Eph 2:2-3 : 2 in which you formerly lived according to this world’s present path, according to the ruler of the domain of the air, the ruler of the spirit that is now energizing the sons of disobedience, 3 among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest…
- 1 John 1:8-9 : 8 If we say we do not bear the guilt of sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9 But if we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous, forgiving us our sins and cleansing us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar and his word is not in us.
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4 How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?
5 If even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure as far as he is concerned,
6 how much less a mortal man, who is but a maggot– a son of man, who is only a worm!”
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15 If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,
16 how much less man, who is abominable and corrupt, who drinks in evil like water!
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1 The Brevity of Life“Man, born of woman, lives but a few days, and they are full of trouble.
2 He grows up like a flower and then withers away; he flees like a shadow, and does not remain.
3 Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?
4 Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean? No one!
5 Since man’s days are determined, the number of his months is under your control; you have set his limit and he cannot pass it.
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17 “Is a mortal man righteous before God? Or a man pure before his Creator?
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17 Insignificance of Humans“What is mankind that you make so much of them, and that you pay attention to them?
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13 when you turn your rage against God and allow such words to escape from your mouth?
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3 O LORD, of what importance is the human race, that you should notice them? Of what importance is mankind, that you should be concerned about them?
4 People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears.
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7 “Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?
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2 “Do you think this to be just: when you say,‘My right before God.’
3 But you say,‘What will it profit you,’ and,‘What do I gain by not sinning?’
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3 Why should we be regarded as beasts, and considered stupid in your sight?
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2 “Truly, I know that this is so. But how can a human be just before God?
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14 then what will I do when God confronts me in judgment; when he intervenes, how will I respond to him?
15 Did not the one who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us in the womb?
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4 Of what importance is the human race, that you should notice them? Of what importance is mankind, that you should pay attention to them?
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9 Who can say,“I have kept my heart clean; I am pure from my sin”?
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4 Motivations of God“Do you have eyes of flesh, or do you see as a human being sees?
5 Are your days like the days of a mortal, or your years like the years of a mortal,
6 that you must search out my iniquity, and inquire about my sin,
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29 If I am guilty, why then weary myself in vain?
30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands clean with lye,
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13 You are too just to tolerate evil; you are unable to condone wrongdoing. So why do you put up with such treacherous people? Why do you say nothing when the wicked devour those more righteous than they are?
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22 Stop trusting in human beings, whose life’s breath is in their nostrils. For why should they be given special consideration?
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4 For you have said,‘My teaching is flawless, and I am pure in your sight.’
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6 If you sin, how does it affect God? If your transgressions are many, what does it do to him?
7 If you are righteous, what do you give to God, or what does he receive from your hand?
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20 If I have sinned– what have I done to you, O watcher of men? Why have you set me as your target? Have I become a burden to you?
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2 What then would be one’s lot from God above, one’s heritage from the Almighty on high?
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23 Who has prescribed his ways for him? Or said to him,‘You have done what is wicked’?
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9 ‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean and have no iniquity.
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32 For he is not a human being like I am, that I might answer him, that we might come together in judgment.
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12 There is a generation who are pure in their own opinion and yet are not washed from their filthiness.
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2 Do not sit in judgment on your servant, for no one alive is innocent before you.
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13 Who entrusted to him the earth? And who put him over the whole world?
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3 Is it of any special benefit to the Almighty that you should be righteous, or is it any gain to him that you make your ways blameless?
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20 For there is not one truly righteous person on the earth who continually does good and never sins.
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6 We are all like one who is unclean, all our so-called righteous acts are like a menstrual rag in your sight. We all wither like a leaf; our sins carry us away like the wind.
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23 For he does not still consider a person, that he should come before God in judgment.
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15 all flesh would perish together and human beings would return to dust.
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3 Everyone rejects God; they are all morally corrupt. None of them does what is right, not even one!
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5 “Suppose a man is righteous. He practices what is just and right,
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12 But an empty man will become wise, when a wild donkey’s colt is born a human being.