Isaiah 64:6
We are all like one who is unclean, all our so-called righteous acts are like a menstrual rag in your sight. We all wither like a leaf; our sins carry us away like the wind.
Psalm 90:5-6
You bring their lives to an end and they "fall asleep." In the morning they are like the grass that sprouts up;
Job 42:5-6
I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye has seen you.
Job 14:4
Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean? No one!
Isaiah 6:5
I said, "Too bad for me! I am destroyed, for my lips are contaminated by sin, and I live among people whose lips are contaminated by sin. My eyes have seen the king, the Lord who commands armies."
Isaiah 40:6-8
A voice says, "Cry out!" Another asks, "What should I cry out?" The first voice responds: "All people are like grass, and all their promises are like the flowers in the field.
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.
Romans 7:24
Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
Ephesians 2:1-2
And although you were dead in your transgressions and sins,
Job 15:14-16
What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
Job 25:4
How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?
Job 40:4
"Indeed, I am completely unworthy -- how could I reply to you? I put my hand over my mouth to silence myself.
Psalm 1:4
Not so with the wicked! Instead they are like wind-driven chaff.
Psalm 51:5
Look, I was guilty of sin from birth, a sinner the moment my mother conceived me.
Isaiah 46:12
Listen to me, you stubborn people, you who distance yourself from doing what is right.
Isaiah 48:1
Listen to this, O family of Jacob, you who are called by the name 'Israel,' and are descended from Judah, who take oaths in the name of the Lord, and invoke the God of Israel -- but not in an honest and just manner.
Isaiah 53:6
All of us had wandered off like sheep; each of us had strayed off on his own path, but the Lord caused the sin of all of us to attack him.
Isaiah 57:12-13
I will denounce your so-called righteousness and your deeds, but they will not help you.
Jeremiah 4:11-12
"At that time the people of Judah and Jerusalem will be told, 'A scorching wind will sweep down from the hilltops in the desert on my dear people. It will not be a gentle breeze for winnowing the grain and blowing away the chaff.
Hosea 4:19
A whirlwind has wrapped them in its wings; they will be brought to shame because of their idolatrous worship.
Zechariah 3:3
Now Joshua was dressed in filthy clothes as he stood there before the angel.
Zechariah 5:8-11
He then said, "This woman represents wickedness," and he pushed her down into the basket and placed the lead cover on top.
Philippians 3:9
and be found in him, not because I have my own righteousness derived from the law, but because I have the righteousness that comes by way of Christ's faithfulness -- a righteousness from God that is in fact based on Christ's faithfulness.
Titus 3:3
For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.
James 1:10-11
But the rich person's pride should be in his humiliation, because he will pass away like a wildflower in the meadow.
1 Peter 1:24-25
For all flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of the grass; the grass withers and the flower falls off,
Revelation 3:17-18
Because you say, "I am rich and have acquired great wealth, and need nothing," but do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked,
Revelation 7:13
Then one of the elders asked me, "These dressed in long white robes -- who are they and where have they come from?"