Ecclesiastes 7:20
New Living Translation
20 Not a single person on earth is always good and never sins.
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Romans 3:23
New Living Translation
23 For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard.
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Isaiah 53:6
New Living Translation
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.
1 John 1:8-10
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8 If we claim we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and not living in the truth. 9 But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness. 10 If we claim we have not sinned, we are calling God a liar and showing that his word has no place in our hearts.
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James 3:2
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2 Indeed, we all make many mistakes. For if we could control our tongues, we would be perfect and could also control ourselves in every other way.
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1 Kings 8:46
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46 “If they sin against you—and who has never sinned?—you might become angry with them and let their enemies conquer them and take them captive to their land far away or near.
Proverbs 20:9
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9 Who can say, “I have cleansed my heart;
I am pure and free from sin”?
Job 15:14-16
New Living Translation
14 Can any mortal be pure?
Can anyone born of a woman be just?
15 Look, God does not even trust the angels.[a]
Even the heavens are not absolutely pure in his sight.
16 How much less pure is a corrupt and sinful person
with a thirst for wickedness!
Footnotes
- 15:15 Hebrew the holy ones.
2 Chronicles 6:36
New Living Translation
36 “If they sin against you—and who has never sinned?—you might become angry with them and let their enemies conquer them and take them captive to a foreign land far away or near.
Isaiah 64:6
New Living Translation
6 We are all infected and impure with sin.
When we display our righteous deeds,
they are nothing but filthy rags.
Like autumn leaves, we wither and fall,
and our sins sweep us away like the wind.
Psalm 143:2
New Living Translation
2 Don’t put your servant on trial,
for no one is innocent before you.
Psalm 130:3
New Living Translation
3 Lord, if you kept a record of our sins,
who, O Lord, could ever survive?
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