Proverbs 20:9

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? [I Kings 8:46; II Chron. 6:36; Job 9:30; 14:4; Ps. 51:5; I John 1:8.]

Cross References

1 Kings 8:46

If they sin against You–for there is no man who does not sin–and You are angry with them and deliver them to the enemy, so that they are carried away captive to the enemy's land, far or near;

2 Chronicles 6:36

If they sin against You–for there is no man who does not sin–and You are angry with them and give them to enemies who take them captive to a land far or near;

Job 14:4

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one! [Isa. 1:18; I John 1:7.]

Job 15:14

What is man, that he could be pure and clean? And he who is born of a woman, that he could be right and just?

Job 25:4

How then can man be justified and righteous before God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be pure and clean? [Ps. 130:3; 143:2.]

Psalm 51:5

Behold, I was brought forth in [a state of] iniquity; my mother was sinful who conceived me [and I too am sinful]. [John 3:6; Rom. 5:12; Eph. 2:3.]

Ecclesiastes 7:20

Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth who does good and never sins. [Isa. 53:6; Rom. 3:23.]

Romans 3:9

Well then, are we [Jews] superior and better off than they? No, not at all. We have already charged that all men, both Jews and Greeks (Gentiles), are under sin [held down by and subject to its power and control].

1 Corinthians 4:4

I am not conscious of anything against myself, and I feel blameless; but I am not vindicated and acquitted before God on that account. It is the Lord [Himself] Who examines and judges me.

James 3:2

For we all often stumble and fall and offend in many things. And if anyone does not offend in speech [never says the wrong things], he is a fully developed character and a perfect man, able to control his whole body and to curb his entire nature.