Proverbs 30:12

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

A generation -- pure in their own eyes, But from their own filth not washed.

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Referenced Verses

  • Luke 18:11 : 11 the Pharisee having stood by himself, thus prayed: God, I thank Thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer;
  • Jer 2:35 : 35 And thou sayest, `Because I have been innocent, Surely turned back hath His anger from me?' Lo, I have been judged with thee, Because of thy saying, `I have not sinned.'
  • Prov 16:2 : 2 All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, And Jehovah is pondering the spirits.
  • Isa 65:5 : 5 Who are saying, `Keep to thyself, come not nigh to me, For I have declared thee unholy.' These `are' a smoke in Mine anger, A fire burning all the day.
  • Jer 2:22-24 : 22 But though thou dost wash with nitre, And dost multiply to thyself soap, Marked is thine iniquity before Me, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. 23 How sayest thou, `I have not been defiled, After the Baalim I have not gone?' See thy way in a valley, know what thou hast done, A swift dromedary winding her ways, 24 A wild ass accustomed to a wilderness, In the desire of her soul she hath swallowed up wind, Her meeting -- who doth turn her back? None seeking her do weary themselves, In her month they find her.
  • Prov 21:2 : 2 Every way of a man `is' right in his own eyes, And Jehovah is pondering hearts.
  • Isa 1:16 : 16 Wash ye, make ye pure, Turn aside the evil of your doings, from before Mine eyes, Cease to do evil, learn to do good.
  • Judg 17:5 : 5 As to the man Micah, he hath a house of gods, and he maketh an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrateth the hand of one of his sons, and he is to him for a priest;
  • Judg 17:13 : 13 and Micah saith, `Now I have known that Jehovah doth good to me, for the Levite hath been to me for a priest.'
  • 1 Sam 15:13-14 : 13 And Samuel cometh in unto Saul, and Saul saith to him, `Blessed `art' thou of Jehovah; I have performed the word of Jehovah.' 14 And Samuel saith, `And what `is' the noise of this flock in mine ears -- and the noise of the herd which I am hearing?'
  • Job 33:9 : 9 `Pure `am' I, without transgression, Innocent `am' I, and I have no iniquity.
  • Ps 36:2 : 2 For he made `it' smooth to himself in his eyes, To find his iniquity to be hated.
  • Ps 51:2 : 2 Thoroughly wash me from mine iniquity, And from my sin cleanse me,
  • Ps 51:7 : 7 Thou cleansest me with hyssop and I am clean, Washest me, and than snow I am whiter.
  • Jer 4:14 : 14 Wash from evil thy heart, O Jerusalem, That thou mayest be saved, Till when dost thou lodge in thy heart Thoughts of thy strength?
  • Ezek 36:25 : 25 And I have sprinkled over you clean water, And ye have been clean; From all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols, I do cleanse you.
  • Zech 13:1 : 1 In that day there is a fountain opened To the house of David And to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, For sin and for impurity.
  • Luke 11:39-40 : 39 And the Lord said unto him, `Now do ye, the Pharisees, the outside of the cup and of the plate make clean, but your inward part is full of rapine and wickedness; 40 unthinking! did not He who made the outside also the inside make?
  • Luke 16:15 : 15 and he said to them, `Ye are those declaring yourselves righteous before men, but God doth know your hearts; because that which among men is high, `is' abomination before God;
  • 1 Cor 6:11 : 11 And certain of you were these! but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were declared righteous, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
  • 2 Tim 3:5 : 5 having a form of piety, and its power having denied; and from these be turning away,
  • Titus 1:15-16 : 15 all things, indeed, `are' pure to the pure, and to the defiled and unstedfast `is' nothing pure, but of them defiled `are' even the mind and the conscience; 16 God they profess to know, and in the works they deny `Him', being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work disapproved.
  • Titus 3:5 : 5 (not by works that `are' in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit,
  • 1 John 1:7-9 : 7 and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light -- we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin; 8 if we may say -- `we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us; 9 if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness; 10 if we may say -- `we have not sinned,' a liar we make Him, and His word is not in us.
  • Rev 1:5 : 5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born out of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth; to him who did love us, and did bathe us from our sins in his blood,

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