Job 4:17
King James Version
17 Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
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Job 4:17
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Job 9:2
King James Version
2 I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
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Job 9:2
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2 “Indeed, I know that this is true.
But how can mere mortals prove their innocence before God?(A)
Job 25:4
King James Version
4 How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
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Job 25:4
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4 How then can a mortal be righteous before God?
How can one born of woman be pure?(A)
Ecclesiastes 7:20
King James Version
20 For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
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Ecclesiastes 7:20
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Romans 11:33
King James Version
33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
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Romans 11:33
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Psalm 143:2
King James Version
2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
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Psalm 143:2
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2 Do not bring your servant into judgment,
for no one living is righteous(A) before you.
Revelation 4:8
King James Version
8 And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.
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Revelation 4:8
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8 Each of the four living creatures(A) had six wings(B) and was covered with eyes all around,(C) even under its wings. Day and night(D) they never stop saying:
Footnotes
- Revelation 4:8 Isaiah 6:3
Romans 9:20
King James Version
20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
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Romans 9:20
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20 But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God?(A) “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it,(B) ‘Why did you make me like this?’”[a](C)
Footnotes
- Romans 9:20 Isaiah 29:16; 45:9
Romans 3:4-7
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4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
5 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)
6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
7 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
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Romans 3:4-7
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4 Not at all! Let God be true,(A) and every human being a liar.(B) As it is written:
5 But if our unrighteousness brings out God’s righteousness more clearly,(D) what shall we say? That God is unjust in bringing his wrath on us? (I am using a human argument.)(E) 6 Certainly not! If that were so, how could God judge the world?(F) 7 Someone might argue, “If my falsehood enhances God’s truthfulness and so increases his glory,(G) why am I still condemned as a sinner?”(H)
Footnotes
- Romans 3:4 Psalm 51:4
Romans 2:5
King James Version
5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
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Romans 2:5
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5 But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath(A), when his righteous judgment(B) will be revealed.
Mark 7:20-23
King James Version
20 And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
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Mark 7:20-23
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20 He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them. 21 For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, 22 adultery, greed,(A) malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. 23 All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”
Jeremiah 17:9
King James Version
9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
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Jeremiah 17:9
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9 The heart(A) is deceitful above all things
and beyond cure.
Who can understand it?
Jeremiah 12:1
King James Version
12 Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
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Jeremiah 12:1
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Jeremiah’s Complaint
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