Proverbs 20:9

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Can any of us really say, “My thoughts are pure, and my sins are gone”?

Cross References

1 Kings 8:46

Everyone sins. But when your people sin against you, suppose you get angry enough to let their enemies drag them away to foreign countries.

2 Chronicles 6:36

Everyone sins. But when your people sin against you, suppose you get angry enough to let their enemies drag them away to foreign countries.

Job 14:4

There's no way a human can be completely pure.

Job 15:14

No human is pure and innocent,

Job 25:4

How can anyone be innocent in the sight of God?

Psalm 51:5

I have sinned and done wrong since the day I was born.

Ecclesiastes 7:20

No one in this world always does right.

Romans 3:9

What does all this mean? Does it mean that we Jews are better off than the Gentiles? No, it doesn't! Jews, as well as Gentiles, are ruled by sin, just as I have said.

1 Corinthians 4:4

I don't know of anything against me, but that doesn't prove that I am right. The Lord is my judge.

James 3:2

All of us do many wrong things. But if you can control your tongue, you are mature and able to control your whole body.