If they sin against You—for there is no man that does not sin—and You become angry with them and deliver them to the enemy, and their captors carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near,
Psalm 143:2 - Tree of Life Version Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for in Your eyes no one living is righteous. 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 man that does not sin—and You become angry with them and deliver them to the enemy, and their captors carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near,
Do You fix Your eyes on such a one, and bring me for judgment with You?
“What is man, that he could be pure, or one born of woman, that he could be righteous?
How then can a man be righteous with God? How can one born of a woman be pure?
‘Can a mortal be righteous before God; or a man pure before his Creator?
If You, Adonai, kept a record of iniquities— my Lord, who could stand?
showing mercy to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, yet by no means leaving the guilty unpunished, but bringing the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, to the third and fourth generation.”
Surely there is not a righteous person on earth who does what is good and doesn’t sin.
For no human, on the basis of Torah observance, will be set right in His sight—for through the Torah comes awareness of sin.
Yet we know that a person is set right not by deeds based on Torah, but rather through putting trust in Messiah Yeshua. So even we have put our trust in Messiah Yeshua, in order that we might be set right based on trust in Messiah and not by deeds based on Torah—because no human will be justified by deeds based on Torah.
If we say we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and His word is not in us.