Job 17:9

Modern English Version

The righteous also will hold to his way, and he who has clean hands will be stronger and stronger.

Cross References

Genesis 20:5

Did he not say to me, ‘She is my sister,’ and did not even she herself say, ‘He is my brother’? In the integrity of my heart and innocence of my hands I have done this.”

2 Samuel 3:1

The struggle between the house of Saul and the house of David endured, but David grew stronger as Saul became weaker.

Job 22:30

He will even deliver one who is not innocent; he will be delivered by the purity of your hands.”

Job 27:5

God forbid that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

Job 27:6

My righteousness I hold fast and will not let it go; my heart will not reproach me as long as I live.

Job 31:7

If my step has turned out of the path, and my heart has gone after my eyes, and if any spot has clung to my hands,

Job 33:9

‘I am clean, without transgression; I am innocent, nor is there iniquity in me.

Psalm 11:3

If the foundations are broken, what can the righteous do?”

Psalm 24:4

He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, nor sworn deceitfully.

Psalm 26:6

I will wash my hands in innocence; thus will I go around Your altar, O  Lord,

Psalm 73:13

Surely I have kept my heart clean in vain, and washed my hands in innocence.

Psalm 84:11

For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord will give grace and glory; no good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly.

Psalm 84:7

They go from strength to strength; every one of them appears in Zion before God.

Psalm 84:8

O  Lord God of Hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, O God of Jacob!   Selah

Proverbs 10:25

When the tempest passes, the wicked is no more, but the righteous stands firm forever.

Proverbs 10:30

The righteous will never be removed, but the wicked will not live in the land.

Proverbs 14:16

A wise man fears and departs from evil, but the fool throws off restraint and is careless.

Proverbs 4:18

But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until the full daytime.

Mark 7:2

When they saw some of His disciples eat bread with defiled, that is, ritually unwashed hands, they found fault.

James 4:8

Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

1 Peter 1:5

who are protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

1 John 2:19

They went out from us, but they were not of us, for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have remained with us. But they went out, revealing that none of them were of us.