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 a person be more righteous than God,
or a man more pure than his Maker?”
Job 14:3
Do You really take notice of one like this?
Will You bring me into judgment against You?
Job 25:4
How can a person be justified before God?
How can one born of woman be pure?
Job 32:2
Then Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite from the family of Ram became angry. He was angry at Job because he had justified himself rather than God.
Job 33:9
“I am pure, without transgression;
I am clean and have no guilt.
Job 34:5
For Job has declared, “I am righteous,
yet God has deprived me of justice.
1 Kings 8:46
When they sin against You—
for there is no one who does not sin
and You are angry with them
and hand them over to the enemy,
and their captors deport them to the enemy’s country
whether distant or nearby—
Psalm 130:3
Yahweh, if You considered sins,
Lord, who could stand?
Psalm 143:2
Do not bring Your servant into judgment,
for no one alive is righteous in Your sight.
Romans 3:20
For no one will be justified in His sight by the works of the law, because the knowledge of sin comes through the law.

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