You say, ‘I am clean, without transgression; I am pure, and there is no iniquity in me.
Proverbs 30:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 There are those who are pure in their own eyes, yet are not cleansed of their filthiness. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, And yet is not washed from their filthiness. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition There is a class of people who are pure in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from their own filth. American Standard Version (1901) There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, And yet are not washed from their filthiness. Common English Bible There are those who think they are clean, but haven’t washed off their own excrement. Catholic Public Domain Version There is a generation which seems pure to themselves, and yet they are not even washed from their filthiness. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version A generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from their filthiness. |
You say, ‘I am clean, without transgression; I am pure, and there is no iniquity in me.
For they flatter themselves in their own eyes that their iniquity cannot be found out and hated.
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
All one’s ways may be pure in one’s own eyes, but the Lord weighs the spirit.
All deeds are right in the sight of the doer, but the Lord weighs the heart.
Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove your evil deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil;
who say, “Keep to yourself; do not come near me, for I am too holy for you.” These are a smoke in my nostrils, a fire that burns all day long.
you say, “I am innocent; surely his anger has turned from me.” Now I am bringing you to judgment for saying, “I have not sinned.”
O Jerusalem, wash your heart clean of wickedness so that you may be saved. How long shall your evil schemes lodge within you?
I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you.
I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; I will make you live in tents again, as in the days of the appointed festival.
On that day a fountain shall be opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity.
So he said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of others, but God knows your hearts, for what is prized by humans is an abomination in the sight of God.
The Pharisee, standing by himself, was praying thus, ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people: thieves, rogues, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
And this is what some of you used to be. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
holding to the outward form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid them!
he saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but according to his mercy, through the water of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
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 freed us from our sins by his blood
Then Micah said, “Now I know that the Lord will prosper me because the Levite has become my priest.”
This man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and teraphim and installed one of his sons, who became his priest.