“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,
Psalm 143:2 - English Standard Version 2016 Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And enter not into judgment with thy servant: For in thy sight shall no man living be justified. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And enter not into judgment with Your servant, for in Your sight no man living is [in himself] righteous or justified. [Ps. 130:3; Rom. 3:20-26; Gal. 2:16.] American Standard Version (1901) And enter not into judgment with thy servant; For in thy sight no man living is righteous. Common English Bible Please don’t bring your servant to judgment, because no living thing is righteous before you. Catholic Public Domain Version My mercy and my refuge, my supporter and my deliverer, my protector and him in whom I have hoped: he subdues my people under me. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version My mercy, and my refuge: my support, and my deliverer: My protector, and I have hoped in him: who subdueth my people under me. |
“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,
And do you open your eyes on such a one and bring me into judgment with you?
What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure?
‘Can mortal man be in the right before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?
keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.”
Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.