Proverbs 20:9

New American Bible - revised edition

Who can say, “I have made my heart clean, I am cleansed of my sin”?

Cross References

1 Kings 8:46

“When they sin against you (for there is no one who does not sin), and in your anger against them you deliver them to an enemy, so that their captors carry them off 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 in your anger against them you deliver them to an enemy, so that their captors carry them off to another land, far or near,

Job 14:4

Can anyone make the unclean clean? No one can.

Job 15:14

How can any mortal be blameless, anyone born of woman be righteous?

Job 25:4

How can anyone be in the right against God, or how can any born of woman be innocent?

Psalm 51:5

For I know my transgressions; my sin is always before me.

Ecclesiastes 7:20

yet there is no one on earth so just as to do good and never sin.

Romans 3:9

Well, then, are we better off? Not entirely, for we have already brought the charge against Jews and Greeks alike that they are all under the domination of sin,

1 Corinthians 4:4

I am not conscious of anything against me, but I do not thereby stand acquitted; the one who judges me is the Lord.

James 3:2

for we all fall short in many respects. If anyone does not fall short in speech, he is a perfect man, able to bridle his whole body also.