Verse 14

What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

Referenced Verses

• Prov 20:9 : 9 Who can say,“I have kept my heart clean; I am pure from my sin”?
• Eccl 7:20 : 20 For there is not one truly righteous person on the earth who continually does good and never sins.
• Job 14:4 : 4 Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean? No one!
• Job 25:4-6 : 4 How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure? 5 If even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure as far as he is concerned, 6 how much less a mortal man, who is but a maggot– a son of man, who is only a worm!”
• Ps 14:3 : 3 Everyone rejects God; they are all morally corrupt. None of them does what is right, not even one!
• Ps 51:5 : 5 Look, I was guilty of sin from birth, a sinner the moment my mother conceived me.
• 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.
• 2 Chr 6:36 : 36 “The time will come when your people will sin against you(for there is no one who is sinless!) and you will be angry at them and deliver them over to their enemies, who will take them as prisoners to their land, whether far away or close by.
• Job 9:2 : 2 “Truly, I know that this is so. But how can a human be just before God?
• Eccl 7:29 : 29 This alone have I discovered: God made humankind upright, but they have sought many evil schemes.
• John 3:6 : 6 What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
• Rom 7:18 : 18 For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I want to do the good, but I cannot do it.
• Gal 3:22 : 22 But the scripture imprisoned everything under sin so that the promise could be given– because of the faithfulness of Jesus Christ– to those who believe.
• Eph 2:2-3 : 2 in which you formerly lived according to this world’s present path, according to the ruler of the domain of the air, the ruler of the spirit that is now energizing the sons of disobedience, 3 among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest…
• 1 John 1:8-9 : 8 If we say we do not bear the guilt of sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9 But if we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous, forgiving us our sins and cleansing us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar and his word is not in us.