Proverbs 20:9

World English Bible (2000)

Who can say, "I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?"

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 8:46 : 46 If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn't sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;
  • Job 14:4 : 4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
  • Eccl 7:20 : 20 Surely there is not a righteous man on earth, who does good and doesn't sin.
  • 2 Chr 6:36 : 36 "If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn't sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that 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 doesn't stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.
  • 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 righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we haven't 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? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
  • Job 25:4 : 4 How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
  • Ps 51:5 : 5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.

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    2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.

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    3 Who may ascend to Yahweh's hill? Who may stand in his holy place?

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    20 Surely there is not a righteous man on earth, who does good and doesn't sin.

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

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