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

Bible References

Justify

Job 9:2
Of a truth I know that 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 more pure than his maker?
Job 32:1
So these three men ceased to answer Job because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Psalm 130:3
If thou, LORD, should note iniquities, O LORD, who could stand?
Psalm 143:2
And enter not into judgment with thy servant. For in thy sight no man living is righteous.
Luke 10:29
But he, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbor?
Luke 16:15
And he said to them, Ye are those who declare yourselves righteous in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. Because what is lofty among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

Mine

Job 15:5
For thine iniquity teaches thy mouth. And thou choose the tongue of the crafty.
Job 34:35
Job speaks without knowledge, and his words are without wisdom.
Job 35:16
so Job opens his mouth in vanity. He multiplies words without knowledge.
Proverbs 10:19
Transgression is not lacking in the multitude of words, but he who refrains his lips does wisely.
Isaiah 6:5
Then I said, Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. For my eyes have seen the King, LORD of hosts.
Matthew 12:36
But I say to you, that every idle word, whatever men may speak, they will render account about it in the day of judgment.
James 3:2
For we all stumble in many things. If any man does not stumble in word, this is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.

I am perfect

Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was perfect and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.
Philippians 3:12
Not that I have already obtained or have already been fully perfected, but I press forward, if also I might seize upon that for which also I was seized by Christ Jesus.

It shall

Job 33:8
Surely thou have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of [thy] words, [saying],
Proverbs 17:20
He who has a wayward heart finds no good, and he who has a perverse tongue falls into mischief.
1 Timothy 6:5
constant frictions of men corrupted in mind, and destitute of the truth, supposing piety to be a means of gain. Withdraw from such.