Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

General references

Bible References

How then

Job 4:17
'Can a human being be more righteous than God, or can a man be more pure than his Maker?
Job 9:2
"Truly I know that [it is] so, but how can a human being be just before God?
Job 15:14
"What [is] a human being, that he can be clean, or that [one] born of a woman can be righteous?
Psalm 130:3
If you, O Yah, should {keep track of} iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?
Psalm 143:2
And do not enter into judgment with your servant, because no one alive [is] righteous before you.
Romans 3:19
Now we know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those under the law, in order that every mouth may be closed and the whole world may become accountable to God.
Romans 5:1
Therefore, [because we] have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

How can

Job 14:3
Even on such a one you fix your eyes, and you bring me into judgment with you.
Psalm 51:5
Behold, in iniquity I was born, and in sin my mother conceived me.
Zechariah 13:1
" 'On that day a well will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, {to cleanse them from sin and from impurity}.
Ephesians 2:3
among whom also we all formerly lived in the desires of our flesh, doing the will of the flesh and of the mind, and we were children of wrath by nature, as also the rest of [them] were.
1 Corinthians 6:11
And some of you were these [things], but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, so that he will forgive us [our] sins and will cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Revelation 1:5
and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and released us from our sins by his blood

General references

Proverbs 20:9
Who will say "I have made my heart clean; I am pure from my sin"?
Luke 18:19
And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one [is] good except God alone.