Proverbs 20:9

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Who can say,“I have kept my heart clean; I am pure from my sin”?

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Referenced Verses

  • 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.
  • Job 14:4 : 4 Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean? No one!
  • Eccl 7:20 : 20 For there is not one truly righteous person on the earth who continually does good and never sins.
  • 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.
  • 1 Cor 4:4 : 4 For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not acquitted because of this. The one who judges me is the Lord.
  • Jas 3:2 : 2 For we all stumble in many ways. If someone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect individual, able to control the entire body as well.
  • 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.
  • Job 15:14 : 14 What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
  • Job 25:4 : 4 How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?
  • Ps 51:5 : 5 Look, I was guilty of sin from birth, a sinner the moment my mother conceived me.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 14:3-4
    2 verses
    78%

    3Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?

    4Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean? No one!

  • Job 33:9
    78%

    9‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean and have no iniquity.

  • Ps 19:12-13
    2 verses
    78%

    12Who can know all his errors? Please do not punish me for sins I am unaware of.

    13Moreover, keep me from committing flagrant sins; do not allow such sins to control me. Then I will be blameless, and innocent of blatant rebellion.

  • Ps 73:13
    76%

    13I concluded,“Surely in vain I have kept my motives pure and maintained a pure lifestyle.

  • Job 9:28-30
    3 verses
    76%

    28I dread all my sufferings, for I know that you do not hold me blameless.

    29If I am guilty, why then weary myself in vain?

    30If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands clean with lye,

  • Ps 51:2-4
    3 verses
    76%

    2Wash away my wrongdoing! Cleanse me of my sin!

    3For I am aware of my rebellious acts; I am forever conscious of my sin.

    4Against you– you above all– I have sinned; I have done what is evil in your sight. So you are just when you confront me; you are right when you condemn me.

  • Job 11:4
    75%

    4For you have said,‘My teaching is flawless, and I am pure in your sight.’

  • Ps 24:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3Who is allowed to ascend the mountain of the LORD? Who may go up to his holy dwelling place?

    4The one whose deeds are blameless and whose motives are pure, who does not lie, or make promises with no intention of keeping them.

  • Job 9:20-21
    2 verses
    74%

    20Although I am innocent, my mouth would condemn me; although I am blameless, it would declare me perverse.

    21I am blameless. I do not know myself. I despise my life.

  • Job 7:20
    74%

    20If 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?

  • Job 35:3
    74%

    3But you say,‘What will it profit you,’ and,‘What do I gain by not sinning?’

  • Eccl 7:20
    73%

    20For there is not one truly righteous person on the earth who continually does good and never sins.

  • Job 10:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6that you must search out my iniquity, and inquire about my sin,

    7although you know that I am not guilty, and that there is no one who can deliver out of your hand?

  • Ps 51:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9Hide your face from my sins! Wipe away all my guilt!

    10Create for me a pure heart, O God! Renew a resolute spirit within me!

  • Job 16:17
    73%

    17although there is no violence in my hands and my prayer is pure.

  • Job 31:7
    73%

    7If my footsteps have strayed from the way, if my heart has gone after my eyes, or if anything has defiled my hands,

  • Prov 30:12
    73%

    12There is a generation who are pure in their own opinion and yet are not washed from their filthiness.

  • Job 25:4
    72%

    4How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?

  • Job 4:17
    72%

    17“Is a mortal man righteous before God? Or a man pure before his Creator?

  • Jer 2:35
    72%

    35you say,‘I have not done anything wrong, so the LORD cannot really be angry with me any more.’ But, watch out! I will bring down judgment on you because you say,‘I have not committed any sin.’

  • Prov 20:8
    72%

    8A king sitting on the throne to judge separates out all evil with his eyes.

  • Ps 17:3
    72%

    3You have scrutinized my inner motives; you have examined me during the night. You have carefully evaluated me, but you find no sin. I am determined I will say nothing sinful.

  • Jer 17:9
    72%

    9The human mind is more deceitful than anything else. It is incurably bad. Who can understand it?

  • Job 15:14
    72%

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

  • Ps 139:23
    71%

    23Examine me, O God, and probe my thoughts! Test me, and know my concerns!

  • Job 10:14
    71%

    14If I sinned, then you would watch me and you would not acquit me of my iniquity.

  • Job 13:23
    71%

    23How many are my iniquities and sins? Show me my transgression and my sin.

  • 2 Sam 22:24
    71%

    24I was blameless before him; I kept myself from sinning.

  • Prov 16:2
    71%

    2All a person’s ways seem right in his own opinion, but the LORD evaluates the motives.

  • Job 36:23
    71%

    23Who has prescribed his ways for him? Or said to him,‘You have done what is wicked’?

  • Ps 51:7
    71%

    7Cleanse me with hyssop and I will be pure; wash me and I will be whiter than snow.

  • Ps 18:23
    71%

    23I was innocent before him, and kept myself from sinning.

  • Prov 20:10
    71%

    10Diverse weights and diverse measures– the LORD abhors both of them.

  • Job 33:27
    71%

    27That person sings to others, saying:‘I have sinned and falsified what is right, but I was not punished according to what I deserved.

  • Mic 6:11
    71%

    11I do not condone the use of rigged scales, or a bag of deceptive weights.

  • Job 9:2
    71%

    2“Truly, I know that this is so. But how can a human be just before God?

  • Ps 130:3
    71%

    3If you, O LORD, were to keep track of sins, O Lord, who could stand before you?

  • Job 34:32
    70%

    32Teach me what I cannot see. If I have done evil, I will do so no more.’

  • Ps 38:18
    70%

    18Yes, I confess my wrongdoing, and I am concerned about my sins.

  • Ps 26:6
    70%

    6I maintain a pure lifestyle, so I can appear before your altar, O LORD,