Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Bible References

Is man

Job 9:2
"Indeed, I'm fully aware that this is so, but how can a person become right with God?
Job 14:4
Who can produce a clean thing from an unclean thing? No one!
Job 25:4
How can a human being become right with God? How can a human being be pure?
1 Kings 8:46
"When they sin against you because there isn't a single human being who doesn't sin and you become angry with them and deliver them over to their enemy, who takes them away captive to the land that belongs to their enemy, whether near or far away,
2 Chronicles 6:36
"When they sin against you because there isn't a single human being who doesn't sin and you become angry with them and deliver them over to their enemy, who takes them away captive to a land that's near or far away,
Psalm 14:3
All have turned away, together they have become corrupt; no one practices what is good, not even one.
Psalm 51:5
Indeed, in iniquity I was brought forth; in sin my mother conceived me.
Proverbs 20:9
Who can say, "My intentions are pure; I am clean from any sin?"
Ecclesiastes 7:20
For there is not a single righteous man on earth who practices good and does not sin.
John 3:6
What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Romans 7:18
For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but I cannot carry it out.
Galatians 3:22
But the Scripture has captured everything by means of sin's net, so that what was promised by the faithfulness of the Messiah might be granted to those who believe.
Ephesians 2:2
that you once practiced as you lived according to the ways of this present world and according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now active in those who are disobedient.
1 John 1:8
If we say that we do not have any sin, we are deceiving ourselves and we're not being truthful to ourselves.

General references

Proverbs 20:9
Who can say, "My intentions are pure; I am clean from any sin?"
Jeremiah 17:9
"The heart is more deceitful than anything. It is incurable who can know it?
Luke 18:19
"Why do you call me good?" Jesus asked him. "Nobody is good except for one God.

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