Proverbs 20:9

Modern English Version

Who can say, “I have made my heart pure, I am cleansed from my sin”?

Cross References

1 Kings 8:46

“If they sin against You (for there is no man who does not sin), and You get angry with them and hand them over to the enemy so that they are carried away as captives to the land of the enemy, far or near,

2 Chronicles 6:36

“When they sin against You (for there is no one who does not sin) and You are angry against them and give them to their enemies, and they are taken captive to a land, whether distant or near,

Job 14:4

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is no one.

Job 15:14

“What is man that he should be pure? And he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Job 25:4

How then can man be righteous with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

Psalm 51:5

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.

Ecclesiastes 7:20

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who only does good and refrains from sin.

Romans 3:9

What then? Are we better than they? No, not at all. For we have already charged that both Jews and Gentiles are all under sin.

1 Corinthians 4:4

For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this. But He who judges me is the Lord.

James 3:2

We all stumble in many ways. But if any man does not stumble in what he says, he is a complete man and able also to control the whole body.