Proverbs 20:9

New English Translation

Who can say, “I have kept my heart clean; I am pure from my sin”?

Cross References

1 Kings 8:46

“The time will come when your people will sin against you (for there is no one who is sinless!) and you will be angry with them and deliver them over to their enemies, who will take them as prisoners to their own land, whether far away or close by.

2 Chronicles 6:36

“The time will come when your people will sin against you (for there is no one who is sinless!) and you will be angry at them and deliver them over to their enemies, who will take them as prisoners to their land, whether far away or close by.

Job 14:4

Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean? No one!

Job 15:14

What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

Job 25:4

How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?

Psalm 51:5

Look, I was guilty of sin from birth, a sinner the moment my mother conceived me.

Ecclesiastes 7:20

For there is not one truly righteous person on the earth who continually does good and never sins.

Romans 3:9

What then? Are we better off? Certainly not, for we have already charged that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin,

1 Corinthians 4:4

For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not acquitted because of this. The one who judges me is the Lord.

James 3:2

For we all stumble in many ways. If someone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect individual, able to control the entire body as well.