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, because 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, Yahweh of Armies!"
Isaiah 53:6
All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Job 14:4
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
Job 15:14
What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Job 25:4
How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
Job 40:4
"Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.
Job 42:5
I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you.
Psalm 51:5
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.
Romans 7:18
For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good.
Ephesians 2:1
You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,
Titus 3:3
For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

All our

Isaiah 57:12
I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they shall not profit you.
Zechariah 3:3
Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing before the angel.
Philippians 3:9
and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;
Revelation 3:17
Because you say, 'I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;' and don't know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;
Revelation 7:13
One of the elders answered, saying to me, "These who are arrayed in white robes, who are they, and from where did they come?"

We all

Isaiah 40:6
The voice of one saying, "Cry!" One said, "What shall I cry?" "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.
Psalm 90:5
You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.
James 1:10
and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.
1 Peter 1:24
For, "All flesh is like grass, and all of man's glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

Our iniquities

Isaiah 57:13
When you cry, let those who you have gathered deliver you; but the wind shall take them, a breath shall carry them all away: but he who takes refuge in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain."
Psalm 1:4
The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
Jeremiah 4:11
At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, "A hot wind from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse;
Hosea 4:19
The wind has wrapped her up in its wings; and they shall be disappointed because of their sacrifices.
Zechariah 5:8
He said, "This is Wickedness;" and he threw her down into the midst of the ephah basket; and he threw the weight of lead on its mouth.

General references

Zechariah 3:3
Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing before the angel.
Luke 17:10
Even so you also, when you have done all the things that are commanded you, say, 'We are unworthy servants. We have done our duty.'"