Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
I will
General references
Bible References
Because
Jeremiah 2:23
How can you say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see your way in the valley, know what you have done: you are a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
Job 33:9
I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me.
Proverbs 28:13
He that covers his sins shall not prosper: but whosoever confesses and forsakes them shall have mercy.
Isaiah 58:3
Why have we fasted, they say, and you see not? why have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and exploit all your laborers.
Romans 7:9
For I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
I will
Jeremiah 2:9
Therefore I will yet plead with you, says the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead.
1 John 1:8
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
General references
Job 9:29
If I am wicked, why then labor I in vain?