Psalm 130:3
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3 If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities,
Lord, who could stand?(A)
Psalm 143:2
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2 Do not enter into judgment with your servant,
for no one living is righteous before you.(A)
Romans 3:20-24
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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)
Righteousness through Faith
21 But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been disclosed and is attested by the Law and the Prophets,(B) 22 the righteousness of God through the faith of Jesus Christ[a] for all who believe.[b] For there is no distinction,(C) 23 since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God;(D) 24 they are now justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,(E)
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Psalm 76:7
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7 But you indeed are awesome!
Who can stand before you
when your anger is roused?(A)
John 8:7-9
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7 When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.”(A) 8 And once again he bent down and wrote on the ground. 9 When they heard it, they went away, one by one, beginning with the elders, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.(B)
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Job 10:14
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14 If I sin, you watch me
and do not acquit me of my iniquity.(A)
Revelation 6:17
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17 for the great day of their[a] wrath has come, and who is able to stand?”(A)
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Malachi 3:2
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2 But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears?
For he is like a refiner’s fire and like washers’ soap;(A)
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Nahum 1:6
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6 Who can stand before his indignation?
Who can endure the heat of his anger?
His wrath is poured out like fire,
and by him the rocks are broken in pieces.(A)
Isaiah 53:6
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6 All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have all turned to our own way,
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.(A)
Job 15:14
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14 What are mortals, that they can be clean?
Or those born of woman, that they can be righteous?(A)
Job 9:20
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20 Though I am innocent, my own mouth would condemn me;
though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.
Job 9:2-3
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2 “Indeed, I know that this is so,
but how can a mortal be just before God?(A)
3 If one wished to contend with him,
one could not answer him once in a thousand.(B)
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