Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
I am perfect
It shall
Bible References
Justify
Job 9:2
Of a truth I know it is so; but how can man be just with God?
Job 4:17
Shall mortal man be more just than +God? Shall a man be purer than his Maker?
Job 32:1
And these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Psalm 130:3
If thou, Jah, shouldest mark iniquities, Lord, who shall stand?
Psalm 143:2
And enter not into judgment with thy servant; for in thy sight no man living shall be justified.
Luke 10:29
But he, desirous of justifying himself, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbour?
Luke 16:15
And he said to them, Ye are they who justify themselves before men, but God knows your hearts; for what amongst men is highly thought of is an abomination before God.
Mine
Job 15:5
For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou hast chosen the tongue of the crafty.
Job 34:35
Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were not with intelligence.
Job 35:16
For Job hath opened his mouth in vanity, and made words abundant without knowledge.
Proverbs 10:19
In the multitude of words there wanteth not transgression; but he that restraineth his lips doeth wisely.
Isaiah 6:5
And I said, Woe unto me! for I am undone; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of hosts.
Matthew 12:36
But I say unto you, that every idle word which men shall say, they shall render an account of it in judgment-day:
James 3:2
For we all often offend. If any one offend not in word, he is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body too.
I am perfect
Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and this man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God and abstained from evil.
Philippians 3:12
Not that I have already obtained the prize, or am already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may get possession of it, seeing that also I have been taken possession of by Christ Jesus.
It shall
Job 33:8
Surely thou hast spoken in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words: --
Proverbs 17:20
He that hath a perverse heart findeth no good; and he that shifteth about with his tongue falleth into evil.
1 Timothy 6:5
constant quarrellings of men corrupted in mind and destitute of the truth, holding gain to be the end of piety.