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
Yes, I know what you’ve said is true,
but how can a person be justified before God?
Job 4:17
“Can a person be more righteous than God,
or a man more pure than his Maker?”
Job 32:1
So these three men quit answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
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.
Luke 10:29
But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
Luke 16:15
And He told them: “You are the ones who justify yourselves in the sight of others, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly admired by people is revolting in God’s sight.

Mine

Job 15:5
Your iniquity teaches you what to say,
and you choose the language of the crafty.
Job 34:35
“Job speaks without knowledge;
his words are without insight.”
Job 35:16
Job opens his mouth in vain
and multiplies words without knowledge.
Proverbs 10:19
When there are many words, sin is unavoidable,
but the one who controls his lips is wise.
Isaiah 6:5
Then I said:

Woe is me for I am ruined
because I am a man of unclean lips
and live among a people of unclean lips,
and because my eyes have seen the King,
the Lord of Hosts.
Matthew 12:36
I tell you that on the day of judgment people will have to account for every careless word they speak.
James 3:2
for we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a mature man who is also able to control his whole body.

I am perfect

Job 1:1
There was a man in the country of Uz named Job. He was a man of perfect integrity, who feared God and turned away from evil.
Philippians 3:12
Not that I have already reached the goal or am already fully mature, but I make every effort to take hold of it because I also have been taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

It shall

Job 33:8
Surely you have spoken in my hearing,
and I have heard these very words:
Proverbs 17:20
One with a twisted mind will not succeed,
and one with deceitful speech will fall into ruin.
1 Timothy 6:5
and constant disagreement among people whose minds are depraved and deprived of the truth, who imagine that godliness is a way to material gain.

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