THEOSISProverbs 20:9Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Who can say: My heart is clean, I am pure from sin?
מִֽי־יֹ֭אמַר זִכִּ֣יתִי לִבִּ֑י טָ֝הַ֗רְתִּי מֵחַטָּאתִֽי׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Eccl 7:20Wisdom hath strengthened the wise more than ten princes of the city.
- 1 John 1:8If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.
- 1 John 1:10If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar: and his word is not in us.
- Job 14:4Who can make him clean that is conceived of unclean seed? is it not thou who only art?
- 1 Cor 4:4For I am not conscious to myself of anything. Yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
- Jas 3:2For in many things we all offend. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man. He is able also with a bridle to lead about the whole body.
- Job 15:14What is man that he should be without spot, and he that is born of a woman that he should appear just?
- Job 25:4Can man be justified compared with God, or he that is born of a woman appear clean?