Psalm 130:3
New Living Translation
3 Lord, if you kept a record of our sins,
who, O Lord, could ever survive?
Psalm 143:2
New Living Translation
2 Don’t put your servant on trial,
for no one is innocent before you.
Romans 3:20-24
New Living Translation
20 For no one can ever be made right with God by doing what the law commands. The law simply shows us how sinful we are.
Christ Took Our Punishment
21 But now God has shown us a way to be made right with him without keeping the requirements of the law, as was promised in the writings of Moses[a] and the prophets long ago. 22 We are made right with God by placing our faith in Jesus Christ. And this is true for everyone who believes, no matter who we are.
23 For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard. 24 Yet God, in his grace, freely makes us right in his sight. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins.
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- 3:21 Greek in the law.
Psalm 76:7
New Living Translation
7 No wonder you are greatly feared!
Who can stand before you when your anger explodes?
John 8:7-9
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7 They kept demanding an answer, so he stood up again and said, “All right, but let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone!” 8 Then he stooped down again and wrote in the dust.
9 When the accusers heard this, they slipped away one by one, beginning with the oldest, until only Jesus was left in the middle of the crowd with the woman.
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Job 10:14
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14 was to watch me, and if I sinned,
you would not forgive my guilt.
Revelation 6:17
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17 For the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to survive?”
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Malachi 3:2
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2 “But who will be able to endure it when he comes? Who will be able to stand and face him when he appears? For he will be like a blazing fire that refines metal, or like a strong soap that bleaches clothes.
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Nahum 1:6
New Living Translation
6 Who can stand before his fierce anger?
Who can survive his burning fury?
His rage blazes forth like fire,
and the mountains crumble to dust in his presence.
Isaiah 53:6
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6 All of us, like sheep, have strayed away.
We have left God’s paths to follow our own.
Yet the Lord laid on him
the sins of us all.
Job 15:14
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14 Can any mortal be pure?
Can anyone born of a woman be just?
Job 9:20
New Living Translation
20 Though I am innocent, my own mouth would pronounce me guilty.
Though I am blameless, it[a] would prove me wicked.
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- 9:20 Or he.
Job 9:2-3
New Living Translation
2 “Yes, I know all this is true in principle.
But how can a person be declared innocent in God’s sight?
3 If someone wanted to take God to court,[a]
would it be possible to answer him even once in a thousand times?
Footnotes
- 9:3 Or If God wanted to take someone to court.
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