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 undone; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of Hosts.
Isaiah 53:6
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, each one to his own way; and Jehovah has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
Job 14:4
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one!
Job 15:14
What is man, that he should be clean? And what is he born of a woman that he should be righteous?
Job 25:4
How then can man be justified with God? Or how can one who is born of a woman be clean?
Job 40:4
Behold, I am vile! What shall I answer You? I will lay my hand on my mouth.
Job 42:5
I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear; but now my eye has seen You.
Psalm 51:5
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Romans 7:18
For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwells no good thing. For to will is present with me, but how to perform that which is good I do not find.
Ephesians 2:1
And He has made you alive, who were once dead in trespasses and sins,
Titus 3:3
For we ourselves also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, slaving for various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

All our

Isaiah 57:12
I will declare your righteousness, and your works; for they shall not do you any good.
Zechariah 3:3
Now Joshua was clothed with filthy clothes, and stood before the Angel.
Philippians 3:9
and be found in Him; not having my own righteousness, which is of the Law, but through the faith of Christ, the righteousness of God by faith,
Revelation 3:17
Because you say, I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing, and do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked,
Revelation 7:13
And one of the elders answered, saying to me, Who are these who are arrayed in white robes, and from where do they come?

We all

Isaiah 40:6
The voice said, Cry! And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the beauty of it is as the flower of the field.
Psalm 90:5
You carry them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep; in the morning they are like grass which grows up.
James 1:10
and the rich one rejoice in his humiliation, because he shall pass away as the flower of the grass.
1 Peter 1:24
For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of men as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls out,

Our iniquities

Isaiah 57:13
When you cry, let your gathering deliver you; but the wind shall carry them all away. Vanity shall take them; but he who puts his trust in Me shall possess the land, and shall inherit My holy mountain.
Psalm 1:4
The wicked are not so, but are like chaff which the wind drives away.
Jeremiah 4:11
At that time it shall be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind from the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of My people, not to sift nor to cleanse.
Hosea 4:19
The wind has bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.
Zechariah 5:8
And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah. And he cast the lead stone over its opening.

General references

Zechariah 3:3
Now Joshua was clothed with filthy clothes, and stood before the Angel.
Luke 17:10
So likewise you, when you shall have done all the things commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants, for we have done what we ought to do.