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Do not enter into judgment with your servant,
    for no one living is righteous before you.(A)

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Do not bring your servant into judgment,
    for no one living is righteous(A) before you.

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20 Surely there is no one on earth so righteous as to do good without ever sinning.(A)

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20 Indeed, there is no one on earth who is righteous,(A)
    no one who does what is right and never sins.(B)

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20 For no human will be justified before him by deeds prescribed by the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.(A)

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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)

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How then can a mortal be righteous before God?
    How can one born of woman be pure?(A)

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How then can a mortal be righteous before God?
    How can one born of woman be pure?(A)

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Do you fix your eyes on such a one?
    Do you bring me into judgment with you?(A)

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Do you fix your eye on them?(A)
    Will you bring them[a] before you for judgment?(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 14:3 Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; Hebrew me

16 yet we know that a person is justified[a] not by the works of the law but through the faith of Jesus Christ.[b] And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we might be justified by the faith of Christ[c] and not by doing the works of the law, because no one will be justified by the works of the law.(A)

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  1. 2.16 Or reckoned as righteous
  2. 2.16 Or faith in Jesus Christ
  3. 2.16 Or faith in Christ

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)

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 2:16 Or but through the faithfulness of … justified on the basis of the faithfulness of

If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities,
    Lord, who could stand?(A)

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If you, Lord, kept a record of sins,
    Lord, who could stand?(A)

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10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.(A)

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10 If we claim we have not sinned,(A) we make him out to be a liar(B) and his word is not in us.(C)

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14 What are mortals, that they can be clean?
    Or those born of woman, that they can be righteous?(A)

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14 “What are mortals, that they could be pure,
    or those born of woman,(A) that they could be righteous?(B)

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17 ‘Can mortals be righteous before[a] God?
    Can humans be pure before[b] their Maker?(A)

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  1. 4.17 Or more righteous than
  2. 4.17 Or more pure than

46 “If they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near,(A)

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46 “When they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin(A)—and you become angry with them and give them over to their enemies, who take them captive(B) to their own lands, far away or near;

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keeping steadfast love for the thousandth generation,[a]
forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin,
yet by no means clearing the guilty,
but visiting the iniquity of the parents
upon the children
and the children’s children
to the third and the fourth generation.”(A)

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  1. 34.7 Or for thousands

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)

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“Indeed, I know that this is so,
    but how can a mortal be just before God?(A)
If one wished to contend with him,
    one could not answer him once in a thousand.(B)

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“Indeed, I know that this is true.
    But how can mere mortals prove their innocence before God?(A)
Though they wished to dispute with him,(B)
    they could not answer him one time out of a thousand.(C)

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