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)
Ecclesiastes 7:20
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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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Romans 3:20
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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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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)
Job 14:3
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3 Do you fix your eyes on such a one?
Do you bring me into judgment with you?(A)
Galatians 2:16
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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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Psalm 130:3
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3 If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities,
Lord, who could stand?(A)
1 John 1:10
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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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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 4:17
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1 Kings 8:46
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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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Exodus 34:7
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7 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)
Footnotes
- 34.7 Or for thousands
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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