Psalm 143:2
New Living Translation
2 Don’t put your servant on trial,
for no one is innocent before you.
Psalm 143:2
New International Version
2 Do not bring your servant into judgment,
for no one living is righteous(A) before you.
Ecclesiastes 7:20
New Living Translation
20 Not a single person on earth is always good and never sins.
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Ecclesiastes 7:20
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Romans 3:20
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.
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Romans 3:20
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20 Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law;(A) rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.(B)
Job 25:4
New Living Translation
4 How can a mortal be innocent before God?
Can anyone born of a woman be pure?
Job 25:4
New International Version
4 How then can a mortal be righteous before God?
How can one born of woman be pure?(A)
Job 14:3
New Living Translation
3 Must you keep an eye on such a frail creature
and demand an accounting from me?
Job 14:3
New International Version
Footnotes
- Job 14:3 Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; Hebrew me
Galatians 2:16
New Living Translation
16 Yet we know that a person is made right with God by faith in Jesus Christ, not by obeying the law. And we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we might be made right with God because of our faith in Christ, not because we have obeyed the law. For no one will ever be made right with God by obeying the law.”[a]
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- 2:16 Some translators hold that the quotation extends through verse 14; others through verse 16; and still others through verse 21.
Galatians 2:16
New International Version
16 know that a person is not justified by the works of the law,(A) but by faith in Jesus Christ.(B) So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in[a] Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.(C)
Footnotes
- Galatians 2:16 Or but through the faithfulness of … justified on the basis of the faithfulness of
Psalm 130:3
New Living Translation
3 Lord, if you kept a record of our sins,
who, O Lord, could ever survive?
Psalm 130:3
New International Version
3 If you, Lord, kept a record of sins,
Lord, who could stand?(A)
1 John 1:10
New Living Translation
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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1 John 1:10
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Job 15:14
New Living Translation
14 Can any mortal be pure?
Can anyone born of a woman be just?
Job 15:14
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Job 4:17
New Living Translation
17 ‘Can a mortal be innocent before God?
Can anyone be pure before the Creator?’
Job 4:17
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1 Kings 8:46
New Living Translation
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.
1 Kings 8:46
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Exodus 34:7
New Living Translation
7 I lavish unfailing love to a thousand generations.[a]
I forgive iniquity, rebellion, and sin.
But I do not excuse the guilty.
I lay the sins of the parents upon their children and grandchildren;
the entire family is affected—
even children in the third and fourth generations.”
Footnotes
- 34:7 Hebrew for thousands.
Exodus 34:7
New International Version
7 maintaining love to thousands,(A) and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin.(B) Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished;(C) he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.”(D)
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.
Job 9:2-3
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