Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?

Bible References

How

Job 4:17
‘Can mankind be just before God?
Can a man be pure before his Maker?
Job 14:3
“You also open Your eyes on him
And bring him into judgment with Yourself.
Job 25:4
“How then can a man be just with God?
Or how can he be clean who is born of woman?
Job 32:2
But the anger of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram burned; against Job his anger burned because he justified himself before God.
Job 33:9
‘I am pure, without transgression;
I am innocent and there is no guilt in me.
Job 34:5
“For Job has said, ‘I am righteous,
But God has taken away my right;
1 Kings 8:46
“When they sin against You (for there is no man who does not sin) and You are angry with them and deliver them to an enemy, so that they take them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;
Psalm 130:3
If You, Lord, should mark iniquities,
O Lord, who could stand?
Psalm 143:2
And do not enter into judgment with Your servant,
For in Your sight no man living is righteous.
Romans 3:20
because by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the Law comes the knowledge of sin.