Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Is man
General references
Bible References
Is man
Job 9:2
"Truly, I know that this is so. But how can a human be just before God?
Job 14:4
Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean? No one!
Job 25:4
How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?
1 Kings 8:46
"The time will come when your people will sin against you (for there is no one who is sinless!) and you will be angry with them and deliver them over to their enemies, who will take them as prisoners to their own land, whether far away or close by.
2 Chronicles 6:36
"The time will come when your people will sin against you (for there is no one who is sinless!) and you will be angry at them and deliver them over to their enemies, who will take them as prisoners to their land, whether far away or close by.
Psalm 14:3
Everyone rejects God; they are all morally corrupt. None of them does what is right, not even one!
Psalm 51:5
Look, I was guilty of sin from birth, a sinner the moment my mother conceived me.
Proverbs 20:9
Who can say, "I have kept my heart clean; I am pure from my sin"?
Ecclesiastes 7:20
For there is not one truly righteous person on the earth who continually does good and never sins.
John 3:6
What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Romans 7:18
For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I want to do the good, but I cannot do it.
Galatians 3:22
But the scripture imprisoned everything and everyone under sin so that the promise could be given -- because of the faithfulness of Jesus Christ -- to those who believe.
Ephesians 2:2
in which you formerly lived according to this world's present path, according to the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the ruler of the spirit that is now energizing the sons of disobedience,
1 John 1:8
If we say we do not bear the guilt of sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.
General references
Proverbs 20:9
Who can say, "I have kept my heart clean; I am pure from my sin"?
Jeremiah 17:9
The human mind is more deceitful than anything else. It is incurably bad. Who can understand it?
Luke 18:19
Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.