Proverbs 30:12

World English Bible (2000)

There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.

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  • Luke 18:11 : 11 The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: 'God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
  • Jer 2:35 : 35 "Yet you said, 'I am innocent. Surely his anger has turned away from me.' "Behold, I will judge you, because you say, 'I have not sinned.'
  • Prov 16:2 : 2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.
  • Isa 65:5 : 5 who say, Stand by yourself, don't come near to me, for I am holier than you. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all the day.
  • Jer 2:22-24 : 22 For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me," says the Lord Yahweh. 23 "How can you say, 'I am not defiled. I have not gone after the Baals'? See your way in the valley. Know what you have done. [You are] a swift dromedary traversing her ways; 24 a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that snuffs up the wind in her desire. When she is in heat, who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not weary themselves. In her month, they will find her.
  • Prov 21:2 : 2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.
  • Isa 1:16 : 16 Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.
  • Judg 17:5 : 5 The man Micah had a house of gods, and he made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
  • Judg 17:13 : 13 Then Micah said, "Now know I that Yahweh will do good to me, since I have a Levite to my priest."
  • 1 Sam 15:13-14 : 13 Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, "You are blessed by Yahweh! I have performed the commandment of Yahweh." 14 Samuel said, "Then what does this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the cattle which I hear mean?"
  • Job 33:9 : 9 'I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.
  • Ps 36:2 : 2 For he flatters himself in his own eyes, too much to detect and hate his sin.
  • Ps 51:2 : 2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.
  • Ps 51:7 : 7 Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
  • Jer 4:14 : 14 Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?
  • Ezek 36:25 : 25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
  • Zech 13:1 : 1 "In that day there will be a spring opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.
  • Luke 11:39-40 : 39 The Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness. 40 You foolish ones, didn't he who made the outside make the inside also?
  • Luke 16:15 : 15 He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
  • 1 Cor 6:11 : 11 Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
  • 2 Tim 3:5 : 5 holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.
  • Titus 1:15-16 : 15 To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled. 16 They profess that they know God, but by their works they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.
  • Titus 3:5 : 5 not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
  • 1 John 1:7-9 : 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin. 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.
  • Rev 1:5 : 5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood;

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