Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

General references

Bible References

How then

Job 4:17
‘Can mankind be just before God?
Can a man be pure before his Maker?
Job 9:2
“In truth I know that this is so;
But how can a man be in the right before God?
Job 15:14
“What is man, that he should be pure,
Or he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Psalm 130:3
If You, Lord, should mark iniquities,
O Lord, who could stand?
Psalm 143:2
And do not enter into judgment with Your servant,
For in Your sight no man living is righteous.
Romans 3:19
Now we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those who are under the Law, so that every mouth may be closed and all the world may become accountable to God;
Romans 5:1
Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

How can

Job 14:3
“You also open Your eyes on him
And bring him into judgment with Yourself.
Psalm 51:5
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,
And in sin my mother conceived me.
Zechariah 13:1
“In that day a fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for impurity.
Ephesians 2:3
Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
1 Corinthians 6:11
Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Revelation 1:5
and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and released us from our sins by His blood—

General references

Proverbs 20:9
Who can say, “I have cleansed my heart,
I am pure from my sin”?
Luke 18:19
And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good except God alone.