Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

Who is able to say, I have made my heart clean, I am free from my sin?

New American Standard Bible

Who can say, “I have cleansed my heart,
I am pure from my sin”?

King James Version

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

Holman Bible

Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure;
I am cleansed from my sin”?

International Standard Version

Who can say, "My intentions are pure; I am clean from any sin?"

A Conservative Version

Who can say, I have made my heart clean. I am pure from my sin?

American Standard Version

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

Amplified


Who can say, “I have cleansed my heart,
I am pure from my sin?”

Darby Translation

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

Julia Smith Translation

Who shall say, I cleansed my heart; I was pure from my sin?

King James 2000

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

Lexham Expanded Bible

Who will say "I have made my heart clean; I am pure from my sin"?

Modern King James verseion

Who can say, I have made my heart clean; I am pure from my sin?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Who can say, "My heart is clean, I am innocent from sin"?

NET Bible

Who can say, "I have kept my heart clean; I am pure from my sin"?

New Heart English Bible

Who can say, "I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?"

The Emphasized Bible

Who can say, I have cleansed my heart, I am pure from my sin?

Webster

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

World English Bible

Who can say, "I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?"

Youngs Literal Translation

Who saith, 'I have purified my heart, I have been cleansed from my sin?'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
זכה 
Zakah 
Usage: 8

I am pure
טהר 
Taher 
Usage: 94

Devotionals

Devotionals about Proverbs 20:9

References

Images Proverbs 20:9

Prayers for Proverbs 20:9

Context Readings

Foolproof Instructions

8 A king on the seat of judging puts to flight all evil with his eyes. 9 Who is able to say, I have made my heart clean, I am free from my sin? 10 Unequal weights and unequal measures, they are all disgusting to the Lord.



Cross References

1 Kings 8:46

If they do wrong against you, (for no man is without sin,) and you are angry with them and give them up into the power of those who are fighting against them, so that they take them away as prisoners into a strange land, far off or near;

Ecclesiastes 7:20

There is no man on earth of such righteousness that he does good and is free from sin all his days.

2 Chronicles 6:36

If they do wrong against you, (for no man is without sin,) and you are angry with them, and give them up into the power of those who are fighting against them, so that they take them away prisoners to a land far off or near;

Job 14:4

If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.

Job 15:14

What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?

Job 25:4

How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman?

Psalm 51:5

Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.

1 Corinthians 4:4

For I am not conscious of any wrong in myself; but this does not make me clear, for it is the Lord who is my judge.

James 3:2

For we all go wrong in a number of things. If a man never makes a slip in his talk, then he is a complete man and able to keep all his body in control.

1 John 1:8-10

If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us.

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