Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
Are all
We all
Our iniquities
General references
Bible References
Are all
Isaiah 6:5
Then I said, The curse is on me, and my fate is destruction; for I am a man of unclean lips, living among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of armies.
Isaiah 53:6
We all went wandering like sheep; going every one of us after his desire; and the Lord put on him the punishment of us all.
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?
Job 40:4
Truly, I am of no value; what answer may I give to you? I will put my hand on my mouth.
Job 42:5
Word of you had come to my ears, but now my eye has seen you.
Psalm 51:5
Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.
Romans 7:18
For I am conscious that in me, that is, in my flesh, there is nothing good: I have the mind but not the power to do what is right.
Ephesians 2:1
And to you did he give life, when you were dead through your wrongdoing and sins,
Titus 3:3
For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.
All our
Isaiah 57:12
I will make clear what your righteousness is like and your works; you will have no profit in them.
Zechariah 3:3
Now Joshua was clothed in unclean robes, and he was in his place before the angel.
Philippians 3:9
And be seen in him, not having my righteousness which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
Revelation 3:17
For you say, I have wealth, and have got together goods and land, and have need of nothing; and you are not conscious of your sad and unhappy condition, that you are poor and blind and without clothing.
Revelation 7:13
And one of the rulers made answer, saying to me, These who have on white robes, who are they, and where did they come from?
We all
Isaiah 40:6
A voice of one saying, Give a cry! And I said, What is my cry to be? All flesh is grass, and all its strength like the flower of the field.
James 1:10
But the man of wealth, that he is made low; because like the flower of the grass he will come to his end.
1 Peter 1:24
For it is said, All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass becomes dry and the flower dead:
Our iniquities
Isaiah 57:13
Your false gods will not keep you safe in answer to your cry; but the wind will take them, they will be gone like a breath: but he who puts his hope in me will take the land, and will have my holy mountain as his heritage.
Psalm 1:4
The evil-doers are not so; but are like the dust from the grain, which the wind takes away.
Jeremiah 4:11
At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A burning wind from the open hilltops in the waste land is blowing on the daughter of my people, not for separating or cleaning the grain;
Hosea 4:19
They are folded in the skirts of the wind; they will be shamed because of their offerings.
Zechariah 5:8
And he said, This is Sin; and pushing her down into the ephah, he put the weight of lead on the mouth of it.
General references
Zechariah 3:3
Now Joshua was clothed in unclean robes, and he was in his place before the angel.
Luke 17:10
In the same way, when you have done all the things which are given you to do, say, There is no profit in us, for we have only done what we were ordered to do.