17 ‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God?
Can a man be more pure than his Maker?

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(A)How then can man be righteous before God?
Or how can he be (B)pure who is born of a woman?

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20 (A)For there is not a just man on earth who does good
And does not sin.

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33 Oh, 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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Do not enter into judgment with Your servant,
(A)For in Your sight no one living is righteous.

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The four living creatures, each having (A)six wings, were full of eyes around and within. And they do not rest day or night, saying:

(B)“Holy,[a] holy, holy,
(C)Lord God Almighty,
(D)Who was and is and is to come!”

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  1. Revelation 4:8 M has holy nine times.

20 But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? (A)Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?”

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(A)Certainly not! Indeed, let (B)God be [a]true but (C)every man a liar. As it is written:

(D)“That You may be justified in Your words,
And may overcome when You are judged.”

But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust who inflicts wrath? (E)(I speak as a man.) Certainly not! For then (F)how will God judge the world?

For if the truth of God has increased through my lie to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

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  1. Romans 3:4 Found true

But in accordance with your hardness and your [a]impenitent heart (A)you are [b]treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

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  1. Romans 2:5 unrepentant
  2. Romans 2:5 storing

20 And He said, (A)“What comes out of a man, that defiles a man. 21 (B)For from within, out of the heart of men, (C)proceed evil thoughts, (D)adulteries, (E)fornications, murders, 22 thefts, (F)covetousness, wickedness, (G)deceit, (H)lewdness, an evil eye, (I)blasphemy, (J)pride, foolishness. 23 All these evil things come from within and defile a man.”

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“The (A)heart is deceitful above all things,
And [a]desperately wicked;
Who can know it?

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  1. Jeremiah 17:9 Or incurably sick

Jeremiah’s Question

12 Righteous (A)are You, O Lord, when I plead with You;
Yet let me talk with You about Your judgments.
(B)Why does the way of the wicked prosper?
Why are those happy who deal so treacherously?

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17 The Lord is righteous in all His ways,
Gracious in all His works.

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“Would(A) you indeed [a]annul My judgment?
Would you condemn Me that you may be justified?

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  1. Job 40:8 nullify

10 But no one says, (A)‘Where is God my Maker,
(B)Who gives songs in the night,

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“Do you think this is right?
Do you say,
‘My righteousness is more than God’s’?

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14 “What(A) is man, that he could be pure?
And he who is born of a woman, that he could be righteous?

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30 (A)If I wash myself with snow water,
And cleanse my hands with [a]soap,
31 Yet You will plunge me into the pit,
And my own clothes will [b]abhor me.

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  1. Job 9:30 lye
  2. Job 9:31 loathe

(A)Does God subvert judgment?
Or does the Almighty pervert justice?

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25 Far be it from You to do such a thing as this, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so (A)that the righteous should be as the wicked; far be it from You! (B)Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?”

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