Verse 14

What is man, that he should be clean? And he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

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  • Prov 20:9 : 9 Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
  • Eccl 7:20 : 20 For there is not a just man on earth who does good and does not sin.
  • Job 14:4 : 4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
  • Job 25:4-6 : 4 How then can man be righteous before God? Or how can he be clean who is born of a woman? 5 Behold, even the moon, and it does not shine; yes, the stars are not pure in His sight. 6 How much less man, who is a worm, and the son of man, who is a worm?
  • Ps 14:3 : 3 They have all turned aside, they have together become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one.
  • Ps 51:5 : 5 Behold, I was shaped in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.
  • 1 Kgs 8:46 : 46 If they sin against you, (for there is no man that does not sin,) and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives to the land of the enemy, far or near;
  • 2 Chr 6:36 : 36 If they sin against you, (for there is no man who does not sin,) and you are angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they carry them away captive to a land far off or near;
  • Job 9:2 : 2 I know this is true: but how can a man be righteous before God?
  • Eccl 7:29 : 29 Lo, this only have I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes.
  • John 3:6 : 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
  • Rom 7:18 : 18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) nothing good dwells: for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find.
  • Gal 3:22 : 22 But the Scripture has concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
  • Eph 2:2-3 : 2 In which in times past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience: 3 Among whom also we all had our conduct in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
  • 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 just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.