Proverbs 20:9

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Can anyone say their heart is pure? Who can say, “I am free from sin”?

Cross References

1 Kings 8:46

“Your people will sin against you. I know this because everyone sins. And you will be angry with your people. You will let their enemies defeat them. Their enemies will make them prisoners and carry them to some faraway land.

Job 14:4

“No one can make something clean from something so dirty.

James 3:2

We all make many mistakes. A person who never said anything wrong would be perfect. Someone like that would be able to control their whole body too.

1 Corinthians 4:4

I don’t know of any wrong I have done, but that does not make me right. The Lord is the one who must decide if I have done well or not.

Job 25:4

How can anyone claim to be right before God? No human being can really be pure.

Job 15:14

“People cannot really be pure. They cannot be more right than God!

Psalm 51:5

I was born to do wrong, a sinner before I left my mother’s womb.

2 Chronicles 6:36

“Your people will sin against you. I know this because everyone sins. And you will be angry with your people. You will let their enemies defeat them. Their enemies will make them prisoners and carry them to some faraway land.

Romans 3:9

So are we Jews better than other people? No, we have already said that those who are Jews, as well as those who are not Jews, are the same. They are all guilty of sin.