Proverbs 20:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

1 Kings 8:46

“If they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near,

2 Chronicles 6:36

“If they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to a land far off or near,

Job 14:4

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one can.

Job 15:14

What are mortals, that they can be clean? Or those born of woman, that they can be righteous?

Job 25:4

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

Psalm 51:5

Indeed, I was born guilty, a sinner when my mother conceived me.

Ecclesiastes 7:20

Surely there is no one on earth so righteous as to do good without ever sinning.

Romans 3:9

What then? Are we any better off? No, not at all, for we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under the power of sin,

1 Corinthians 4:4

I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.

James 3:2

For all of us make many mistakes. Anyone who makes no mistakes in speaking is mature, able to keep the whole body in check with a bridle.