Psalms 143:2

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Do not sit in judgment on your servant, for no one alive is innocent before you.

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Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 7:20 : 20 For there is not one truly righteous person on the earth who continually does good and never sins.
  • Rom 3:20 : 20 For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
  • Job 14:3 : 3 Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?
  • Job 25:4 : 4 How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?
  • Ps 130:3 : 3 If you, O LORD, were to keep track of sins, O Lord, who could stand before you?
  • Job 15:14 : 14 What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
  • Job 4:17 : 17 “Is a mortal man righteous before God? Or a man pure before his Creator?
  • Gal 2:16 : 16 yet we know that no one is justified by the works of the law but by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by the faithfulness of Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.
  • 1 John 1:10 : 10 If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar and his word is not in us.
  • Job 9:2-3 : 2 “Truly, I know that this is so. But how can a human be just before God? 3 If someone wishes to contend with him, he cannot answer him one time in a thousand.
  • Exod 34:7 : 7 keeping loyal love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin. But he by no means leaves the guilty unpunished, responding to the transgression of fathers by dealing with children and children’s children, to the third and fourth generation.”
  • 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.

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