1 Corinthians 4:4

Christ's Servant, God's Steward

³ and to me it is for a very little thing that by you I may be judged, or by man's day, but not even myself do I judge, ⁴ for of nothing to myself have I been conscious, but not in this have I been declared right -- and he who is discerning me is the Lord: ⁵ so, then, nothing before the time judge ye, till the Lord may come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of the darkness, and will manifest the counsels of the hearts, and then the praise shall come to each from God.

Before God

It is the Lord

Vindicate Me

No

Psalm 143:2

And enter not into judgment with Thy servant, For no one living is justified before Thee.

Psalm 130:3

If iniquities Thou dost observe, O Lord, who doth stand?

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we did conduct ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;

Job 9:2-3

Truly I have known that it is so, And what -- is man righteous with God?

Job 9:20

If I be righteous, Mine mouth doth declare me wicked, Perfect I am! -- it declareth me perverse.

Job 15:14

What is man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman?

Job 25:4

And what? is man righteous with God? And what? is he pure -- born of a woman?

Job 27:6

On my righteousness I have laid hold, And I do not let it go, My heart doth not reproach me while I live.

Job 40:4

Lo, I have been vile, What do I return to Thee? My hand I have placed on my mouth.

Psalm 7:3-5

O Jehovah, my God, if I have done this, If there is iniquity in my hands,

Psalm 19:12

Errors! who doth understand? From hidden ones declare me innocent,

Psalm 26:12

My foot hath stood in uprightness, In assemblies I bless Jehovah!

Psalm 50:6

And the heavens declare His righteousness, For God Himself is judge. Selah.

Proverbs 21:2

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, And Jehovah is pondering hearts.

John 21:17

He saith to him the third time, 'Simon, son of Jonas, dost thou dearly love me?' Peter was grieved that he said to him the third time, 'Dost thou dearly love me?' and he said to him, 'Lord, thou hast known all things; thou dost know that I dearly love thee.' Jesus saith to him, 'Feed my sheep;

Acts 23:1

And Paul having earnestly beheld the sanhedrim, said, 'Men, brethren, I in all good conscience have lived to God unto this day;'

Romans 2:13

for not the hearers of the law are righteous before God, but the doers of the law shall be declared righteous: --

Romans 3:19-20

And we have known that as many things as the law saith, to those in the law it doth speak, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may come under judgment to God;

Romans 4:2

for if Abraham by works was declared righteous, he hath to boast -- but not before God;

1 Corinthians 4:5

so, then, nothing before the time judge ye, till the Lord may come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of the darkness, and will manifest the counsels of the hearts, and then the praise shall come to each from God.

2 Corinthians 5:10

for all of us it behoveth to be manifested before the tribunal of the Christ, that each one may receive the things done through the body, in reference to the things that he did, whether good or evil;

1 John 3:20-21

because if our heart may condemn -- because greater is God than our heart, and He doth know all things.