Verse 4

And what? is man righteous with God? And what? is he pure -- born of a woman?

Referenced Verses

  • Job 4:17-19 : 17 `Is mortal man than God more righteous? Than his Maker is a man cleaner? 18 Lo, in His servants He putteth no credence, Nor in His messengers setteth praise.' 19 Also -- the inhabitants of houses of clay, (Whose foundation `is' in the dust, They bruise them before a moth.)
  • Job 9:2 : 2 Truly I have known that `it is' so, And what -- is man righteous with God?
  • Job 15:14-16 : 14 What `is' man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman? 15 Lo, in His holy ones He putteth no credence, And the heavens have not been pure in His eyes. 16 Also -- surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness.
  • Ps 130:3 : 3 If iniquities Thou dost observe, O Lord, who doth stand?
  • Ps 143:2 : 2 And enter not into judgment with Thy servant, For no one living is justified before Thee.
  • Rom 5:1 : 1 Having been declared righteous, then, by faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
  • 1 John 1:9 : 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;
  • 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.
  • Ps 51:5 : 5 Lo, in iniquity I have been brought forth, And in sin doth my mother conceive me.
  • Job 14:3-4 : 3 Also -- on this Thou hast opened Thine eyes, And dost bring me into judgment with Thee. 4 Who giveth a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
  • Rom 3:19-20 : 19 And we have known that as many things as the law saith, to those in the law it doth speak, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may come under judgment to God; 20 wherefore by works of law shall no flesh be declared righteous before Him, for through law is a knowledge of sin.
  • 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,
  • Eph 2:3 : 3 among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath -- as also the others,
  • 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.