Proverbs 20:9

New International Reader's Version

No one can say, “I have kept my heart pure. I’m ‘clean,’ and I haven’t sinned.”

Cross References

1 Kings 8:46

“Suppose your people sin against you. After all, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t sin. And suppose you get angry with them. You hand them over to their enemies. They take them as prisoners to their own lands. It doesn’t matter whether those lands are near or far away.

2 Chronicles 6:36

“Suppose they sin against you. After all, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t sin. And suppose you get angry with them. You hand them over to their enemies. They take them as prisoners to another land. It doesn’t matter whether that land is near or far away.

Job 14:4

Who can bring what is pure from something that isn’t pure? No one!

Job 15:14

“Can human beings really be pure? Can those who are born really be right with God?

Job 25:4

How can human beings be right with God? How can mere people really be pure?

Psalm 51:5

I know I’ve been a sinner ever since I was born. I’ve been a sinner ever since my mother became pregnant with me.

Ecclesiastes 7:20

It is true that there isn’t anyone on earth who does only what is right and never sins.

Romans 3:9

What should we say then? Do we Jews have any advantage? Not at all! We have already claimed that Jews and Gentiles are sinners. Everyone is under the power of sin.

1 Corinthians 4:4

I don’t feel I have done anything wrong. But that doesn’t mean I’m not guilty. The Lord judges me.

James 3:2

All of us get tripped up in many ways. Suppose someone is never wrong in what they say. Then they are perfect. They are able to keep their whole body under control.