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.

General references

Bible References

Are all

Isaiah 6:5
Then I said:

Woe is me for I am ruined
because I am a man of unclean lips
and live among a people of unclean lips,
and because my eyes have seen the King,
the Lord of Hosts.
Isaiah 53:6
We all went astray like sheep;
we all have turned to our own way;
and the Lord has punished Him
for the iniquity of us all.
Job 14:4
Who can produce something pure from what is impure?
No one!
Job 15:14
What is man, that he should be pure,
or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
Job 25:4
How can a person be justified before God?
How can one born of woman be pure?
Job 40:4
I am so insignificant. How can I answer You?
I place my hand over my mouth.
Job 42:5
I had heard rumors about You,
but now my eyes have seen You.
Psalm 51:5
Indeed, I was guilty when I was born;
I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
Romans 7:18
For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For the desire to do what is good is with me, but there is no ability to do it.
Ephesians 2:1
And you were dead in your trespasses and sins
Titus 3:3
For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.

All our

Isaiah 57:12
I will expose your righteousness,
and your works—they will not profit you.
Zechariah 3:3
Now Joshua was dressed with filthy clothes as he stood before the Angel.
Philippians 3:9
and be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own from the law, but one that is through faith in Christ—the righteousness from God based on faith.
Revelation 3:17
Because you say, ‘I’m rich; I have become wealthy and need nothing,’ and you don’t know that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked,
Revelation 7:13
Then one of the elders asked me, “Who are these people robed in white, and where did they come from?”

We all

Isaiah 40:6
A voice was saying, “Cry out!”
Another said, “What should I cry out?”
“All humanity is grass,
and all its goodness is like the flower of the field.
Psalm 90:5
You end their lives; they sleep.
They are like grass that grows in the morning—
James 1:10
but the one who is rich should boast in his humiliation because he will pass away like a flower of the field.
1 Peter 1:24
For

All flesh is like grass,
and all its glory like a flower of the grass.
The grass withers, and the flower falls,

Our iniquities

Isaiah 57:13
When you cry out,
let your collection of idols deliver you!
The wind will carry all of them off,
a breath will take them away.
But whoever takes refuge in Me
will inherit the land
and possess My holy mountain.
Psalm 1:4
The wicked are not like this;
instead, they are like chaff that the wind blows away.
Jeremiah 4:11
“At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, ‘A searing wind blows from the barren heights in the wilderness on the way to My dear people. It comes not to winnow or to sift;
Hosea 4:19
A wind with its wings will carry them off,
and they will be ashamed of their sacrifices.


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Zechariah 5:8
“This is Wickedness,” he said. He shoved her down into the basket and pushed the lead weight over its opening.

General references

Zechariah 3:3
Now Joshua was dressed with filthy clothes as he stood before the Angel.
Luke 17:10
In the same way, when you have done all that you were commanded, you should say, ‘We are good-for-nothing slaves; we’ve only done our duty.’”

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